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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"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."

"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
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