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Michael Bolton

"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."

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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."

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Donna Grant

"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."

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Donna Grant

"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."

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Donna Grant

"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."

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Donna Grant

"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."

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Donna Grant

"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

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Donna Grant

"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."

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Donna Grant

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

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Donna Grant

"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."

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Donna Grant

"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."

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Donna Grant

"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."

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Michael Bolton
"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."

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Michael Bolton
"For years I've kept a list of dream projects."

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Michael Bolton
"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."

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Michael Bolton
"I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment."

Time

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Michael Bolton
"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."

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Michael Bolton
"You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it."

Love

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Michael Bolton
"A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of."

Success

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Michael Bolton
"With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD."

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Michael Bolton
"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song."

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Michael Bolton
"I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra."

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