"Music is about textures as well as melody."

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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?"

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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."

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

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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

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

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"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."

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

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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

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"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."

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"I usually think in terms of music."

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"Childhood is a promise that is never kept."

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"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."

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"People don't have fun making music all the time."

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"Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time."

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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."

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"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."

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"Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration."

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"If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically."

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"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."

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"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."

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