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Jack Prelutsky

"I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter."

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"I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

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Amber Hurdle

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

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Amber Hurdle

"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

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Amber Hurdle

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

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Amber Hurdle

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

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Jack Prelutsky
"When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all."
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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."
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"After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures."
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Jack Prelutsky
"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."
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"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."
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"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."
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"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."
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Jack Prelutsky
"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."
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"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."
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