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Taylor Hackford

"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."

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Amber Hurdle

"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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Amber Hurdle

"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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