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"I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music."
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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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"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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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."
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"I'm not a jazz singer."
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"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."
Men
"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."
World
"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Life
"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."
Time
"I was a guitar player first off."
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"Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around."
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"I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."
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"I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one."
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