Top 4 Don Alias Quotes
#1. Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!
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#2. Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession
a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.
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#3. I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.
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#4. If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it
and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.
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