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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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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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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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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"I write books to find out about things."
Books
"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
God
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
Comfort
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
Soul
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