I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can’t tell them apart and I’m not really aware of class. I don’t pay any attention to those boundaries. I’m a California girl.
We know shark’s fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can’t buy it or sell it.
We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.
I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
I know when ‘California Dreamin’ was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.
It’s always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.
In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, ‘What the hell did we just pass?’
When I was in the California legislature in the ’80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put ‘organic’ on it.
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that’s how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has turned into ‘Nickel and Dimed.’
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
Fads get hot in California. A good idea can come from Des Moines, but it’s not going to be anything there. Then it’ll hit Venice Beach or Westwood and go all around the country, back to Des Moines.
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
I just didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.
