"No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had."

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"No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had."

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

Alex North, American Composer

Music,

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music, May

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Rick Derringer, American Musician

Music, Thought

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

Music,

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Sting, British Musician

Music, Language, Needs

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

Music,

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

Music, Dance, Being, Body

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

Martha Reeves, American Musician

Music, Song

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

Gloria Gaynor, American Musician

Music, Nothing

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"Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it."

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"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."

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"It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway."

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"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."

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"I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them."

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

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

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"Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it."

"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."

"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."

"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody."

"I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started."

"I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well."

"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."

"It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway."

"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."

"I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them."