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Bernie Worrell
American
Musician
About the author
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#England
#Boston
#Music
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Want
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Ability
#First
#Universe
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Mother
#Talent
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Fight
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Today
#Music
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Now
#Baby
#Singing
I talk by playing, not by words.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Words
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Writing
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Fame
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#People
#Voice
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#College
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Mother
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Food
#Money
#Sex
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
Bernie Worrell,
American
Musician
#Art
#School
#Students
#Providence