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"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."
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"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."
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"Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content."
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"When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority."
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"Live always in the best company when you read."
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"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
Mother
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
Company
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Music
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
Mother
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
Artist
"This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish."
Time
"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."
Thought
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
History
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
People
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