"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."

William Christopher Handy, American Musician

Music, Talent

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

Music, Funny, Dress, Play

"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

Music, Time, Artist, Country

"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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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

Music, People, Country, Country music

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Music, Truth, Soul, Creativity

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

Rihanna, American Musician

Music, People, Dream, Difference

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Music, Jazz, Humor, Truth

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

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Music, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."

Basil Bunting, British Poet

Music, Sculpture

"I usually think in terms of music."

Shane West, American Actor

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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

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"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."

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"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

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

"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."

"I usually think in terms of music."

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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."

"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."

"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"Nature was my kindergarten."

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."

"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."