Andie MacDowell Quotes
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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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.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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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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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
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Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
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There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
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When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
