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Some people are born into money and always have plenty of it. They don't do anything to earn it. It's just given to them. They have never been without it, and wouldn't know what it's like to be as the rest of us---always struggling to make ends meet. We all know people of that sort, if only from the movies. You may be one yourself.
Music to me is like money to those people. I inherited a musical life at birth, and have been around fine music ever since. There has never been a period when I didn't have it and love it, but the flame didn't grow into a passion until my early teens.
The story of my musical life inevitably starts with and centers around my father. Whenever people ask me about my musical influences, the first words out of my mouth are inevitably: ``My father ...''
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