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For my whole life I can't remember not doing what I'm doing now, and I'm seventy. I was picking out four-part harmony at eight and nine years of age on the piano. Why? I don't know. I don't care. All I know is it's there and harmony is something that really stimulates the hell out of me. I just saw each thing as a logical exposure to something which I developed further.

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I had a concussion nine years ago, and that changed things. I had always been sensitive musically, but now, since the concussion, I find the emotion is there immediately. There is no build. I hear several chord changes — it could be three or four chord changes from a string orchestra — and, man, I'm just gushing tears. I don't take it as a weakness. Sometimes it might get slightly embarrassing to observers. On the other hand, I'm not putting it on. I'm in no way trying to exaggerate feeling. My feelings are exactly the opposite. Sometimes I wish I wouldn't be quite as sensitive because then I wouldn't have to go through this thing when I write.

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Since suffering a concussion eight years ago, I find my inside emotions are right to the front and as such, when I heard that Antonio Carlos Jobim had died in December of 1994 I was much affected, I experienced happenings like no other time in my life. While sleeping one night, I dreamed that I was conducting a recording session with strings in Brazil and we were performing Jobim's "Corcovado," except that besides the melody and harmony, there was polyharmonic bass line. As I awakened from this dream, I went to my piano and wrote down what I had dreamed.

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Nepotism. My brother's son, André Fischer, was the drummer in the band Rufus, with Chaka Khan. Apparently, the arrangements I made for their early records were appreciated, so in the following years I was hired almost exclusively by black artists. I am surprised that my arrangements are now considered one of the prerequisites for a hit album. People feel that they make a song sound almost classical.

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I had a chance to play that instrument for six days. Hearing German spoken around me made me think of my father, who died in 1960, and whom I hadn't thought much about in recent years. And I remembered what he meant to me. I played "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" because my father used to sing it to me. So I sat there, thinking of my father, and weeping.

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