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"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
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"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
Music
"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."
Now
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Fear
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
Heart
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
War
"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
Brother
"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
Business
"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me."
Clothes
"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."
Folk
"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."
Life
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