"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

Gene Clark, American Musician

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