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I don’t listen to a lot of radio today. It’s not really music to me.

Bernie Worrell

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
BERNIE WORRELL

Anybody Branches Long Taught
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
BERNIE WORRELL

Concerts Mother Pianist
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
BERNIE WORRELL

Gifts Mother Natural Talent
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
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Art Concert School Students
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
BERNIE WORRELL

Around College Known Lounge
I don’t listen to a lot of radio today. It’s not really music to me.
BERNIE WORRELL

Lot Music Radio Today
The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.
BERNIE WORRELL

Fight Fighting Stories Wish
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
BERNIE WORRELL

Baby Female Singing
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
BERNIE WORRELL

Enticed Instruments Money Sex
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.
BERNIE WORRELL

Firsts Mean Something Want
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.
BERNIE WORRELL

Cutting Playing String Track Writing
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
BERNIE WORRELL

Boston Lessons Music Private
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
BERNIE WORRELL

Usually Want Way
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE WORRELL

Fame Presented Rocks Roll

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