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		Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jimi Hendrix 
			 
			
				The Jimi Hendrix Experience  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				B. F. Skinner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Vedder 
			 
			
				Pearl Jam  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paloma Faith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Talib Kweli 
			 
			
				Black Star  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Action Bronson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abigail Washburn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		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. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edgar Winter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. Carter Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Cal Ripken, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carlisle Floyd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Gropius