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"I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer."
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Victoria de los Angeles
"I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer."
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"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do."
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Erykah Badu
"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do."
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"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."
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Vanessa Carlton
"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."
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"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."
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Slick Rick
"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."
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"This dark diction has become America's addiction."
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Kanye West
"This dark diction has become America's addiction."
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"I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me."
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LaToya Jackson
"I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me."
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"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
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Chris Brown
"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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Iris DeMent
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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"What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff."
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Jimmy Chamberlin
"What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff."
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"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well."
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Billy Sherwood
"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well."
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"Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are."
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John McLaughlin
"Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are."
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"In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents."
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Peter Garrett
"In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents."
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"I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock."
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Dick Dale
"I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock."
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"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
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Martha Reeves
"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
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"Honestly achieved results surpass all others."
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Michael Diamond
"Honestly achieved results surpass all others."
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"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
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Elvis Presley
"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
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"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."
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Eminem
"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."
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"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."
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Marian McPartland
"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."
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"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
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Itzhak Perlman
"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
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"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
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Caroline Corr
"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
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"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
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Eddie Floyd
"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
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"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."
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Joanna Newsom
"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."
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"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
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Norman Granz
"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
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"On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers."
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Jewel Kilcher
"On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers."
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"I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money."
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Christine McVie
"I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money."
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"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."
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Joshua Homme
"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."
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"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."
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Ashlee Simpson
"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."
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"Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk."
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Andy Gibb
"Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk."
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"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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Paula Cole
"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."
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Miroslav Vitous
"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."
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"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
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Joseph Jarman
"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
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"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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Elton John
"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. I've always cared about my clothes and my shoes."
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Lady Gaga
"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. I've always cared about my clothes and my shoes."
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"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"
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Count Basie
"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"
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"That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage."
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Maureen Forrester
"That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage."
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"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."
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Joanna Newsom
"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."
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"When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming."
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Rosanne Cash
"When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming."
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"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"
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Maynard James Keenan
"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"
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"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
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George Michael
"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
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"I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it."
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Keith Emerson
"I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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Emanuel Ax
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music."
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Obie Trice
"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music."
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"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."
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Jeff Beck
"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."
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"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."
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Tom Lehrer
"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."
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"Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both."
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Angie Martinez
"Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both."
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"I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love."
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Tina Turner
"I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love."
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"There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it."
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Clara Schumann
"There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it."
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"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."
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Paul McCartney
"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."
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"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
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David Byrne
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
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"I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me."
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Melanie Chisholm
"I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me."
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