Music Quotes
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All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.
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I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.
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I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.
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What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.
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Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
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I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.
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The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
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In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
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Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.
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It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
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The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.
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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
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I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
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I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.
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When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.
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I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.
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I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
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No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.
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I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.
