Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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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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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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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I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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Part of the bigger problem with Donald Trump is, when you sit and talk to him one-on-one, he's reasonable, he comes across as caring, he's open-minded, but then, all of that just is thrown out the window when he tweets and when he communicates with the media - and when he communicates at all.
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Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!
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It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the world, then I'll get the job.
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The same thing I've always wanted. To bring light into the dark. To bring life where there is death.
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Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
