"I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined."

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"I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined."

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

Music, Funny, Dress, Play

"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."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

Music, People, Country, Country music

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Music, Truth, Soul, Creativity

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

Rihanna, American Musician

Music, People, Dream, Difference

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Music, Jazz, Humor, Truth

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

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Music, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."

Basil Bunting, British Poet

Music, Sculpture

"I usually think in terms of music."

Shane West, American Actor

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"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."

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"Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching."

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"Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do."

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

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

"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."

"I usually think in terms of music."

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"Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me."

"Music can't change the world."

"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing."

"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."

"Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching."

"Playing live if the thing I love doing best."

"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."

"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."

"Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do."