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I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of sorts, and both were indigenous to their respective cultures: Ireland, where my father had grown up, and towns like St. Louis along the Mississippi River, where I was growing up.
- Michael McDonald
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We try to promote the Christmas season and remind people that it is a season of peace. That's what the season's real meaning is about. No matter what religion you are, there is that point in time where we should celebrate that idea of peace and humanity.
- Michael McDonald
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#Peace
#Real
#Religion
#Time
Throughout my career, there has always been an element of surprise. Sometimes there are moments of disappointment; sometimes there are moments of surprising success.
- Michael McDonald
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There were certain Ray Charles albums and a couple of early Marvin Gaye records that I used to listen to with a vengeance. That's how you forge a style. It excites you, and you lean toward it almost unconsciously. I was also a Beatles fanatic, but I didn't emulate them the way I did the R&B artists.
- Michael McDonald
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#Way
I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a priest or a songwriter, you were golden.
- Michael McDonald
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#Golden
#Great
#Job
#Priest
I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.
- Michael McDonald
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#Enjoy
#Person
#Stage
I think, as musicians, that's really all we want is to keep working. We want to have a reason to be, and we want to play for as many people in this span of life that we're allowed as we possibly can, and in as many places as we possibly can.
- Michael McDonald
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#Places
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#Want
When I get in a bad mood about anything, I realize, 'Hey, I'm still working. It could always be a lot worse.'
- Michael McDonald
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I grew up in the era where everybody wanted to sing like Mitch Ryder and James Brown. And I did, too. But I learned real quick that it hurts after a while.
- Michael McDonald
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#Did
#Real
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#Where
When I first heard Thundercat's stuff, I thought, 'Man, this is so original.' A lot of his ballads, to me, had such a beautiful harmonic, almost classically Hispanic, feel or, like, Brazilian kind of feeling. I don't think he does that intentionally or anything. It's just I think those are his influences on some level.
- Michael McDonald
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#Feel
#Feeling
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#Me
I think that's the one thing we all hope for in this life is we leave something of a legacy, that's meaningful to someone else, when we leave here.
- Michael McDonald
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#Leave
#Legacy
#Life
#Someone
Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things... and then there's that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There's great stuff that's taken the genre to a new level over the years, and 'Regulate' was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.
- Michael McDonald
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#Level
#New
#People
#Things
My friendship with The Doobie Brothers never really changed. We're all still good friends, and I really admire those guys a lot.
- Michael McDonald
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#Friends
#Friendship
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#Never
Looking back, I sometimes wish I had done things differently. But if I had, I'm not sure that I wouldn't have proven to be my own worst enemy.
- Michael McDonald
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#Looking Back
#Looking
#Sometimes
Probably some of the most miserable years of my life were grappling with some definition of what success was.
- Michael McDonald
#Life
#Miserable
#My Life
#Success
#Years
It was surprising, really, that 'Minute by Minute' did as well as it did and as quickly as it did.
- Michael McDonald
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#Minute
#Really
#Surprising
#Well
I think when you're not prepared for something, success can be as crippling a thing as failure to people. I think it touches whatever insecurities you have, that you may not be as in touch with you as you should be or whatever.
- Michael McDonald
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#May
#People
#Success
#Whatever
I do love the Nat King Cole stuff, the classic Christmas records. There's something about putting those records on and hearing his voice at Christmastime that brings back a lot of great memories of growing up.
- Michael McDonald
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#Great
#King
#Love
#Memories
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