Ethel Merman Quotes
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
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Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
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My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
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I want to make music for everybody.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.
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When it comes down to it, I just want to work.
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
