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Quotes by Musician

"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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Daniel Johns
"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
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Michael Jackson
"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
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"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
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Placido Domingo
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
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"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."
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Celine Dion
"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."
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"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."
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Loretta Lynn
"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."
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"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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Maureen Forrester
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
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John Lennon
"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
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"I privilege the music over the lyrics."
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Duncan Sheik
"I privilege the music over the lyrics."
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"I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy."
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Paula Abdul
"I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy."
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"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
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Ville Valo
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
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"The piano has been drinking, not me."
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Tom Waits
"The piano has been drinking, not me."
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"All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to."
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Grandmaster Flash
"All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to."
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"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."
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Patti Smith
"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."
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"We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits."
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Gary Cherone
"We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits."
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"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."
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Jim Dale
"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."
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"The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas."
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Paula Abdul
"The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas."
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"I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer."
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Eugene Ormandy
"I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer."
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"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
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Paula Abdul
"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
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"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
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Mark Kelly
"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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John Lee Hooker
"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
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Wynton Marsalis
"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
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"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."
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Mahalia Jackson
"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."
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"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."
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Al Stewart
"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."
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"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
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Frank Zappa
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
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"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."
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Shirley Bassey
"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."
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"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
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Jo Stafford
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
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"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
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Dusty Springfield
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
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"We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs."
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Edgar Winter
"We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs."
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"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."
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Phil Collen
"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."
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"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."
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Billy Joel
"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."
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"Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet."
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Michael W. Smith
"Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet."
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"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."
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Peter Steele
"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
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Duke Ellington
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
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"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
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Yehudi Menuhin
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
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"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."
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Maurice Gibb
"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."
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"Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde."
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Suzi Quatro
"Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde."
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"I was an elementary school teacher."
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Luciano Pavarotti
"I was an elementary school teacher."
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"I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days."
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Bill Kreutzmann
"I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days."
Fun,
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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Kid Rock
"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her."
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Barry McGuire
"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her."
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"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there."
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Amy Grant
"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there."
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"I'm pretty much an open book."
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Lee Greenwood
"I'm pretty much an open book."
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"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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Shakira
"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey."
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Vince Gill
"I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey."
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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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Bill Bruford
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."
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Lou Reed
"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."
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"The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles."
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Charles Munch
"The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles."
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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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Ethel Waters
"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."
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Burl Ives
"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."
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"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
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Liam Gallagher
"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
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