"I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how."

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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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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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."

Tommy Chong, Canadian Actor

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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Hanns Eisler, German Composer

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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."

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"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."

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"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."

Children

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

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"Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected."

Hurt

"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."

Thought

"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."

Trust

"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"

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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."

"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."

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

"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."

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."

"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

"Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected."

"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"

"I want to be like the patron saint of reality."

"I read on the Internet that I was dead."

"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."

"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."

"The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?"