"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate."

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"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate."

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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."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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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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"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

Music, Listening, Now, Right

"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

Music, Nature, God, Feet

"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

John Mayall, British Musician

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"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

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"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

Keith Richards, English Musician

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"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."

People

"A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail."

People

"And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together."

Art

"So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent."

Being

"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18."

Time

"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."

Work

"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

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"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."

"A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail."

"Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record."

"War is not civilized."

"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion."

"And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together."

"So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent."

"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18."

"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."

"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."