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		I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carla Bley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salma Hayek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malik Bendjelloul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ice Cube 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malik Bendjelloul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Momsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Keane 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				K. Flay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabby Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Moss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Beck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bayard Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fede Alvarez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Grace Martine Tandon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jennifer Grant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Madeleine Stowe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carla Bley