"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

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"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

Glenda Jackson, British Actress

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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

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"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

Thomas Dolby, English Musician

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

Thomas Merton, American Author

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"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

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"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music."

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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."

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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."

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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."

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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."

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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."

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