"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

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"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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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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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

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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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"We became the songs we wrote."

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"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

Music

"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."

Nature

"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."

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"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

Age

"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."

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"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."

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"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."

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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

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"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

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