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"A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?"
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"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."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."
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"I usually think in terms of music."
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"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
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"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
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"Music is the silence between the notes."
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"A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?"
Music
"We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy."
Success
"A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany."
Work
"But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests."
Sensitivity
"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
Interest
"Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability."
Education
"I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment."
People
"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools."
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