"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."

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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."

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"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."

Love, College, Song, Songs

"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."

Idea, Mind, Obvious, Radical

"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."

People, Light

"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."

Music, Worry

"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."

Children, Order, Parents, Responsibility

"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."

Home, Music, Time, Father

"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."

Music, Chance

"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."

College, Grammar, School, Singing

"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

Parents,

"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."

Poetry, Children, Want

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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Harry Belafonte, American Musician

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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