Martin Luther Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
