"It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy."

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"It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy."

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

Rod Stewart, Scottish Musician

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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

Marc Almond, British Musician

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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

Jeff Tweedy, American Musician

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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

Ray Charles, American Musician

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

Alex North, American Composer

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music, Interest, Learning

"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way."

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"My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old."

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"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."

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"Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes."

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"I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy."

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"Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing."

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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"Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way."

"My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old."

"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."

"Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy."

"God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK."

"Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27."

"Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes."

"I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy."

"I want my flowers while I'm alive."

"Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing."