"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard."

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"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard."

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

John Cage, American Composer

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

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"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."

Enya, Irish Musician

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"It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart."

Guy Clark, American Musician

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"I'm very into the first production of the show."

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"It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done."

First

"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."

Time

"That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better."

Fun

"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."

Earth

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."

Day

"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."

Attention

"The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up."

Death

"When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out."

Company

"It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like."

Time

"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."

Choice