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Michelle Shocked

"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."

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Akshay Vasu

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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Akshay Vasu

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

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Akshay Vasu

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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Akshay Vasu

"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."

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Akshay Vasu

"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."

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Michelle Shocked
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

Music

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Michelle Shocked
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

Dance

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Michelle Shocked
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

Life

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Michelle Shocked
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."

Faith

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Michelle Shocked
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

People

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is too important to be left to professionals."

Music

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."

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Michelle Shocked
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

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Michelle Shocked
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

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