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"When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore."
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Bjork
"When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore."
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"When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process."
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Lindsey Buckingham
"When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process."
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"We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again."
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Tom Araya
"We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again."
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"I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles."
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Bjork
"I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles."
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"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
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Keith Richards
"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
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"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
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Bruce Johnston
"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
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"People that complete other people's vision are understated."
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Bjork
"People that complete other people's vision are understated."
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"You know what, life is full of temptations."
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Smokey Robinson
"You know what, life is full of temptations."
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"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
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Barry Manilow
"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
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"I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way."
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Tim McGraw
"I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way."
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"The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy."
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Bjork
"The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy."
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"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
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Justin Bieber
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
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"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day."
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Itzhak Perlman
"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day."
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"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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Shakira
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
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John Lennon
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
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"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life."
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Bjork
"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life."
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"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
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Tom Lehrer
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
Age,
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"There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews."
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Bjork
"There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews."
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"People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them."
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John Wozniak
"People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them."
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"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."
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Trevor Rabin
"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."
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"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."
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Bonnie Raitt
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."
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"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."
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David Bowie
"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."
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"I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way."
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Bjork
"I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way."
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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."
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Carlos Santana
"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."
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"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."
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Bjork
"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."
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"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
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Sid Vicious
"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
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"Where's your will to be weird?"
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Jim Morrison
"Where's your will to be weird?"
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"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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Naomi Judd
"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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Lisa Loeb
"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
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Brian Eno
"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
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"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
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Gavin Rossdale
"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
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"With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock."
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Chris Brown
"With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock."
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"Music can change the world because it can change people."
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Bono
"Music can change the world because it can change people."
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"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
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Lady Gaga
"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
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"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
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Brenda Fassie
"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
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"Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development."
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Bjork
"Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development."
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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
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Louis Armstrong
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
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"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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Paul McCartney
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."
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Benny Goodman
"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."
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"People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them."
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Bobby Womack
"People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them."
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"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl."
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Janis Joplin
"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl."
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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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Lauryn Hill
"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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Kanye West
"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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"For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them."
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Taylor Swift
"For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them."
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"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
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Tom Lehrer
"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
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"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."
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Ted Nugent
"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."
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"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
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Sarah McLachlan
"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
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"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
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John Coltrane
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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Ruben Blades
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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"Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine."
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Allison Krauss
"Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine."
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