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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."
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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."
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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."
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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."
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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
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"A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son."
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"The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't."
Life

"My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home."
Father

"Don't we all want what's best for each other?"
Want

"Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist."
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"I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that."
Fool

"We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that."
Love

"By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life."
Life

"Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me."
Music

"The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work."
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