I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
BERNIE WORRELLWe used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
More Bernie Worrell Quotes
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Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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I don’t listen to a lot of radio today. It’s not really music to me.
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I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
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Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
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The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.
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You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
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Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
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As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I’m writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I’ll just sit and roll tape.
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We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
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I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
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I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
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