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"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."
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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."
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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
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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."
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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!"
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"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."
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"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
Time
"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."
Father
"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."
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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
Work
"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."
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"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."
Time
"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."
Beginning
"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
Music
"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
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