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"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."
Exlpore more Mercy quotes
"If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented."
"Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated."
"Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater."
"For this new-married man approaching here,Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'dYour well defended honour, you must pardonFor Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--Being criminal, in double violationOf sacred chastity and of promise-breachThereon dependent, for your brother's life,--The very mercy of the law cries outMost audible, even from his proper tongue,'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE."
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