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“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.”

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Author:Jeff Lynne

“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.”

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Book:The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

Source: The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.”

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Author:Brendan O'Carroll