We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.
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received one, proclaim it. SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi... SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the... SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it. SIR WALTER SCOTT