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Quotes by Musician

"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."

"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."

"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."

"This dark diction has become America's addiction."

"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'."

"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."

"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."

"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."

"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."

"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."
Play,

"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."

"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."

"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."

"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."

"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."

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."

"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."

"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."

"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."

"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."

"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."

"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"

"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

"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."

"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."

"I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me."
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