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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."


"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."


"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."


"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."


"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."


"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."


"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
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