Mary Steenburgen Quotes
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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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.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.
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'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.
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I'm fascinated by comedy.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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A dream you dream alone is just a dream, a dream you dream together is a reality.
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The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
