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"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
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"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."
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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."
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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
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"Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love."
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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."
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"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen."
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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed."
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"As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them."
Love
"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
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"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
Music
"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
Spirit
"I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way."
Work
"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
Trust
"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really."
Quality
"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
Acting
"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
Acting
"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
Hollywood
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