Mary Steenburgen Quotes
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
Mary Steenburgen
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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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.
Ornette Coleman
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Yoko Ono
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
Iggy Azalea
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
Dan Fogelberg
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Chris Stapleton
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.
Fat Joe
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
Raina Telgemeier
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The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
Mary Steenburgen
