"Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen."

Music, Emotions

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"Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Rick Derringer, American Musician

Music, Thought

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

Music,

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Sting, British Musician

Music, Language, Needs

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

Music,

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

Gloria Gaynor, American Musician

Music, Nothing

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

Etta James, American Musician

Music, Songs

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

Peabo Bryson, American Musician

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"When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them."

Fun

"It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?"

Want

"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."

Mother

"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."

World

"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."

America

"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing."

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"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

"When words leave off, music begins."

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"Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them."

"It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?"

"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."

"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."

"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."

"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."

"I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing."

"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."

"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing."

"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."