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Michelle Shocked

"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

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"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

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Akshay Vasu

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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Akshay Vasu

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

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Akshay Vasu

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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Akshay Vasu

"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously."

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Michelle Shocked
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

Music

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Michelle Shocked
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

Dance

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Michelle Shocked
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is too important to be left to professionals."

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

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Michelle Shocked
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

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Michelle Shocked
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."

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Michelle Shocked
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."

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Michelle Shocked
"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music."

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Michelle Shocked
"Make your own music. It can be done."

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