Music Quotes
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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I think people always want to hear that there are barriers that exist for us. But the more I started to realize artists that are kind of like me in my lane, like, if they were white or African-American, they often had trouble because it wasn't the quality of their music: they just didn't stick out.
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I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
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I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
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I come from the Bronx, so I was exposed to every type of music you can think of.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
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There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
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But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
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I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.
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My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
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Music is like film to me.
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I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
