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Quotes by Musician
"Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out."
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"When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight."
60
"It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity."
60
"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."
60
"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."
60
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
60
"I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash."
60
"When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be."
60
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
59
"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
59
"When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas."
59
"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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"The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television."
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"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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"The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears."
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"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."
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"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."
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"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
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"Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life."
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"I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'."
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"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
59
"We were a country band with a social conscience."
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"You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking."
59
"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."
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"People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing."
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"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."
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"If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't."
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"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."
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"I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out."
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"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."
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