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"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
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"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."
"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 means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
"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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"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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