When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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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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And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall.
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