"We became the songs we wrote."

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

Rod Stewart, Scottish Musician

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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

Marc Almond, British Musician

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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

Jeff Tweedy, American Musician

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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

Ray Charles, American Musician

Music, Time, Want

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

Music, Movies, Inspiration, Ideas

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

Alex North, American Composer

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

Insanity

"We've written something like 900 songs in all."

Music

"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."

Life

"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."

Success

"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."

Danger

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."

Time

"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."

First

"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

Life

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

Being

"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."

Architecture