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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

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

Music, Disorder

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

Glenda Jackson, British Actress

Music, Want

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

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

Music, Pretty

"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

Music, Time, Computer, Internet

"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

Music, Songs

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

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

Music, Time

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

Keith Richards, English Musician

Music,

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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

Folk

"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

Heart

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

American

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

War

"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

Pretty

"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."

Want

"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."

Life

"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."

Music

"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."

Thought

"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."

Business