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"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."
Thinking

"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."
May

"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."
Football

"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls."
Girls

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
Thought

"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am."
Love

"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."
Music

"If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity."
Hope

"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
Truth

"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."
Music
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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."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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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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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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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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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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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."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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