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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
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Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.
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I have a studio at home where I record all of my solo material from the beginning 'til the very end, thus also the ideas which later on will find their way onto yet another Mike & The Mechanics album.
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I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.
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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
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We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
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Love's stronger than fear and death.
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We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can.
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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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When the time is right to release another Mike & The Mechanics album, the three of us get together and we start writing new material out of an acoustic setting.
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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You can't expect us to send each other hundreds of different tapes. Think of the postage cost alone! No, we only function when we are sitting next to each other in a studio. The result is well known by now!
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Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
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It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
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Wayne County chose Carnegie Learning because of its focus on teaching critical thinking and problem solving skills in real world scenarios. The State of West Virginia is committed to the 21st Century Skills Partnership to make certain our high school graduates have the skills they need to be successful in the global marketplace, and the implementation of Carnegie Learning's curricula strongly supports this initiative.
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When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the right guitar part. Whereas I think, as the much younger player I tended to do things much more consciously. I didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. That's what I do now. I wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. As I say, I don't force it. So I like to think of myself as a receiver. I'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until I hear it through that receiver, I don't usually do it. It's got to start writing itself somehow.
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That (home run) was a backbreaker. It just deflated us.
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I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
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With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
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We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
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Nothing's planned. Never say never.