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		What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Levine 
			 
			
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		I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Allen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Lambert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mandy Moore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Reynolds 
			 
			
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		Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				F. Sionil Jose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Flume 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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