Allison Pearson Quotes
We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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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.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
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We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
