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James Taylor

"Music is like a huge release of tension."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

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

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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love."

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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

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"There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!"

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"Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking."

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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."
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"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
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"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."
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"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."
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