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| 1. | A green flash is a tropical phenomenon. |
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| 2. | But, I just wanted to compile songs that I thought kids would like, and that I would like too. |
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| 3. | But, the big push came in 1964 when the Beatles invaded America and I found myself needing a guitar. |
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| 4. | But, the music that works and expresses inner thought the best is created from true feelings. |
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| 5. | But, this album was well put together and the tones all sound good, the kids who helped were great, the arrangements are not too busy. And it's not overproduced. |
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| 6. | By and large music is a medium of the senses, expressing emotions. |
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| 7. | Children's music is a strange niche. |
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| 8. | Classrooms are great, don't get me wrong. |
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| 9. | Dad was a Missouri Synod Lutheran minister in the St. John's district of Portland, Oregon. |
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| 10. | I just took a right handed guitar and learned like that. |
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| 11. | I searched through a local college placement office and found that the only direct dial phone call overseas was to Guam. I called and while I was still on the phone, they said they would hold positions for both my wife and I. |
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| 12. | I was born in Portland, Oregon in the early 50s, to Felix E. and Francis C. Janssen. |
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| 13. | I'm left handed and do everything left handed. |
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| 14. | I'm still writing and thinking kids music. |
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| 15. | I've been down lots of roads, musically and physically. |
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| 16. | If you go back to music I've written since I began. Varied. But, there's a thread of similarity. |
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| 17. | In 1989 the school district that I was working for in southern Oregon lost funding for a full time elementary music specialist. |
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| 18. | It didn't occur to me that I should restring the guitar. |
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| 19. | Life deals us strange turns. |
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| 20. | Music was important in my life as a part of the religious training in the Lutheran Church. |
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| 21. | My wife and I had always wanted to teach and live overseas, so opportunity knocked. |
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| 22. | People get very into pigeon-holing music. |
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| 23. | Say something, do something that means something in this world. |
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| 24. | So, bad luck turned into good. I believe it can always be that way. |
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| 25. | Someone told me years later that I played a wicked rhythm guitar, they said that was because I hit down on the top strings first which gives the guitar chords a stronger dose of treble. |
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| 26. | Sorry to get political, but 98 years of territories staying only territories with no true voting representation in the US congress is too long. |
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| 27. | That similarity is in the melodies that I've written. |
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| 28. | The best thing about this particular type of success is that I feel like the biggest teacher in the world. |
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| 29. | The first short period of time I was homesick. |
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| 30. | The music I've created has almost always connected. |
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| 31. | The plans are on the board to record a couple tunes with my brothers Bob, and Tim, and my good friend and former Diamond Jeff Patterson. |
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| 32. | They've taken me to rock and roll land, country rock land, and spiritual land... and that's all inside of me. |
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| 33. | When I saw Paul McCartney playing bass left handed I thought, hey, that's ok. |
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| 34. | When I was young I always said I wanted to be a minister like my dad and granddad. |
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| 35. | When you do kids music, you don't get played on the radio. |
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