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		It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beth Nielsen Chapman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ward Churchill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natasha Trethewey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. B. King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Quaid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Momsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Gilbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Melissa de la Cruz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Najib Mikati 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beth Nielsen Chapman