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"I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music."
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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 there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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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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"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time."
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"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."
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"Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken."
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"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
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"It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits."
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"I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music."
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"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name."
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"We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship."
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"The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days."
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"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
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"I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids."
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"I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time."
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