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"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
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Geezer Butler
"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
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"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."
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Carmen Miranda
"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."
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"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek."
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Gwen Stefani
"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek."
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"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."
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Shirley Bassey
"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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Deana Carter
"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
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Al Jourgensen
"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
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"Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!"
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Merle Haggard
"Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!"
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"You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins."
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David Coverdale
"You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins."
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"You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people."
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Greg Ginn
"You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people."
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"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
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Bob Dylan
"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
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"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
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Liam Gallagher
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
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"I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records."
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Boy George
"I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records."
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"I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride."
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Gwen Stefani
"I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride."
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"My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters."
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Kevin Richardson
"My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters."
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"Drugs are a bet with your mind."
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Jim Morrison
"Drugs are a bet with your mind."
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"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
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Kurt Cobain
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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Ruben Blades
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money."
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Wayne Newton
"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money."
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"If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it."
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Courtney Love
"If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it."
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"I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history."
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Paula Abdul
"I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history."
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"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."
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Duke Ellington
"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."
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"We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies."
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Slick Rick
"We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies."
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"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."
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Jelly Roll Morton
"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."
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"I love being in a band."
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Jewel Kilcher
"I love being in a band."
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"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
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Kurt Cobain
"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
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"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."
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Edwin Starr
"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."
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"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."
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Robbie Williams
"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."
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"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
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Ron Carter
"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
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"Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date."
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Cher
"Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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Andy Summers
"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."
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Paul Westerberg
"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."
Fun,
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"We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything."
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Joel Madden
"We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything."
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"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
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Cab Calloway
"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
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"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."
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Kristin Hersh
"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."
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"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."
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Bjork
"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."
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"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence."
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Nancy Sinatra
"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence."
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"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
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Robert Smith
"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
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"Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time."
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Maurice Gibb
"Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time."
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"I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle."
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Guy Clark
"I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle."
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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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Laurie Anderson
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure."
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James Taylor
"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure."
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"The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had."
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Ace Frehley
"The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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Matthew Shipp
"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."
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Jessica Simpson
"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."
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"It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other."
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Stone Gossard
"It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other."
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"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind."
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Brian Eno
"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind."
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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
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Bruce Johnston
"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
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"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"
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Amy Grant
"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"
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"Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion."
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Ville Valo
"Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion."
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"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."
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Utada Hikaru
"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."
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