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"I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?"
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Peter Tosh
"I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?"
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"Walking through this life really is walking through fire."
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Chaka Khan
"Walking through this life really is walking through fire."
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"I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia."
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Suzi Quatro
"I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia."
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"Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us."
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Phil Collins
"Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us."
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"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."
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James Levine
"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."
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"I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together."
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Vanessa Carlton
"I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together."
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"Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself."
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Joan Jett
"Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself."
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"What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story."
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Pete Townshend
"What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story."
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"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."
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Billy Joel
"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."
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"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
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Janis Joplin
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
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"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things."
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Thom Yorke
"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things."
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"My voice is an instrument."
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David Coverdale
"My voice is an instrument."
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"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."
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Carly Simon
"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."
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"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
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Geezer Butler
"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
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"Love is the first wisdom in life."
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Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
"Love is the first wisdom in life."
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"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."
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Mick Jagger
"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."
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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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"I always wanted to be a basketball player."
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Ronnie James Dio
"I always wanted to be a basketball player."
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"It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself."
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Bobby Darin
"It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself."
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"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
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Thurston Moore
"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
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"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."
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Bobby Vinton
"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."
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"I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice."
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Bill Monroe
"I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice."
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"It's hard listening to myself."
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Meg White
"It's hard listening to myself."
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"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath."
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Elaine Paige
"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath."
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"It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me."
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Peter Steele
"It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me."
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"I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury."
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John Deacon
"I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury."
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"Our parents were musicians."
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Caroline Corr
"Our parents were musicians."
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"The way to compose for me is to have lots of time."
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Eberhard Weber
"The way to compose for me is to have lots of time."
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"Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before."
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Lydia Lunch
"Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before."
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"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
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Robert Smith
"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
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"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."
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Sonny Rollins
"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."
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"All the really pretty girls get pregnant."
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Mark Hoppus
"All the really pretty girls get pregnant."
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"I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record."
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Duncan Sheik
"I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record."
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"I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD."
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George Duke
"I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD."
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"These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side."
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Michael Giles
"These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side."
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"OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?"
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Teena Marie
"OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?"
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"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."
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Elvis Presley
"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."
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"I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening."
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Frankie Valli
"I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening."
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"I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, 'Because of you, I didn't give up.'"
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Lady Gaga
"I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, 'Because of you, I didn't give up.'"
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"Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71."
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Link Wray
"Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71."
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"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
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Cab Calloway
"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
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"The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet."
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Macy Gray
"The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet."
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"God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone."
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Ziggy Marley
"God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone."
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"Love is the true wealth, which can do entirely without wealth."
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Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
"Love is the true wealth, which can do entirely without wealth."
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"People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on."
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Joanna Newsom
"People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on."
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"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate."
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Warren Cuccurullo
"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate."
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"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
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Richard Marx
"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
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"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties."
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David Bowie
"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties."
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"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
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John Lennon
"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
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"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things."
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Tori Amos
"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things."
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