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"I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political."
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Nelly
"I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political."
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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
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Brian Eno
"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
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"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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Fiona Apple
"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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Ethel Waters
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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"I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."
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Joel Madden
"I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."
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"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
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Alfredo Kraus
"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
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"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
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Marc Almond
"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
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"I've never stopped learning."
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Mick Taylor
"I've never stopped learning."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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Tom Glazer
"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
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Samantha Mumba
"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
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"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."
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Dusty Springfield
"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."
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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
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Lionel Hampton
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
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"When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true."
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Paula Abdul
"When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true."
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"I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power."
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Vanessa Carlton
"I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power."
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"Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have."
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LaToya Jackson
"Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have."
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"I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone."
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Kate Bush
"I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone."
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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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Maurice Gibb
"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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"We can all put weight on or lose weight."
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Keith Emerson
"We can all put weight on or lose weight."
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"We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group."
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Peter Hook
"We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group."
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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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"To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently."
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Suzanne Vega
"To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently."
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"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
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George Harrison
"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
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"My past is a bit checkered."
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Kid Rock
"My past is a bit checkered."
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"We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet."
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Krist Novoselic
"We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet."
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"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
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Bobby McFerrin
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
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"I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing."
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Elvis Presley
"I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing."
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"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."
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Kylie Minogue
"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."
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"Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah."
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Cat Stevens
"Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah."
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"I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you."
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Clara Schumann
"I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you."
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"But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear."
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Duncan Sheik
"But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear."
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"David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent."
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Juliana Hatfield
"David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent."
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"I just wish I could understand my father."
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Michael Jackson
"I just wish I could understand my father."
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"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."
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Dave Lombardo
"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."
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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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"Nothing exceeds like excess."
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Al Jourgensen
"Nothing exceeds like excess."
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"And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made."
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Tom Scholz
"And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made."
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"There's only one God. Call him whatever you want."
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Arlo Guthrie
"There's only one God. Call him whatever you want."
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"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."
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Huey Lewis
"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."
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"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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Brownie McGhee
"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing."
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Cyndi Lauper
"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing."
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"The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping."
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Michael Hutchence
"The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping."
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"But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
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Bob Dylan
"But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
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"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
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Paul Simon
"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
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"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
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Ethel Waters
"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
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"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
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Cliff Richard
"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
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"George Burns was the father I never had."
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Bobby Darin
"George Burns was the father I never had."
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"The Doors were never that good as musicians."
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Ray Manzarek
"The Doors were never that good as musicians."
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"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."
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Annie Lennox
"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."
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"The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique."
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Ric Ocasek
"The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique."
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"British girls are as temperamental as Americans."
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Ivor Novello
"British girls are as temperamental as Americans."
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