I just thought, that's what you did -- you sang in a voice that was appropriate for the song. You wrote music that was exciting to you and incorporated any style you liked. That shaped me as a musician and has been the key to my longevity. I accepted that music as the Bible.
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When I wrote '... GIN WIGMORE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... DAVID BOWIE The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. PRINCE As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you ... ARTHUR MILLER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 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CHARLES KING It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... DONALD MILLER I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music... BENNY BLANCO The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was famil... 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But when you talk to so... NICK ATKINSON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Look, that was some weird shit, you dying and then returning from the dead. I know it was no acciden... A. VIOLET END As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was ... KATE VOEGELE I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt... TAYLOR SWIFT Irish music has been great to me. It's really exciting to be accepted as an Irish musician in this c... EILEEN MCLANE That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible. DAVE HAYWOOD Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one son... KIM GORDON I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you... SUZANNE COLLINS I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ... AL JARREAU After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the son... TOM ARAYA Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that ... LESTER HOLT But their friendship and relationship was so clearly drawn on Jim's part, I was just playing the mus... JEFFREY WRIGHT I did film. For instruments, I played guitar, the piano, the drums -- I just basically dive into mus... BRIAN VILLORIA I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry. RUBEN STUDDARD The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in t... EUGENE LEVY I believe that you can always learn from observation. TAMARA TUNIE You did something to me, I don't know what it was but I do know that I don't want to lose you. You a... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was ... BECCA TOBIN I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... JIDENNA I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ... LINDA EVANS I love playing all kinds of music, ... And the way to learn that music is with the musicians who inv... DAVID GRISMAN Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and san... GERARD WAY I did it because he wasn't fair to you. Because you deserve credit for what you've done. Because he ... RICHELLE MEAD I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good d... DAVID LYNCH I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I w... GEORG SOLTI Your mind was the canvas on which you wrote the next era in music. But it was that same mind that to... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see... DEBORAH COX Music and fashion, it all comes from the same place of creativity, ... I don't see why any musician ... GWEN STEFANI When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of... VALERIE JUNE I honestly thought I would be working in the garment district, ... Everyone else in my neighborhood ... JAY SIEGEL At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ... DANIEL EK I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musici... ROBERT MOOG Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my oth... DANIELLE DE NIESE You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was t... DAVE HAYWOOD With every album you record, you hope that you've grown as an entertainer and musician. We've waited... JAY DEMARCUS I learned that I knew it (there are some things in life, you knew before you could put the words to ... MARK VAUGHAN I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th... BLYTHE DANNER I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different ... BABYFACE As far as the Yanukovych administration is concerned, you will see, if you do any fact-checking, tha... PAUL MANAFORT You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for w... YELAWOLF The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It wa... GEDDY LEE You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the... BARBARA KRUGER Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c... LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you jus... WESLEY SCHULTZ I just thought it was phenomenal. It reminded me of what an influence John was—how strong an influ... DAVID LETTERMAN I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think t... JOHN F. KENNEDY I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup... DAVID BOWIE I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve... EDGAR WINTER You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ... CALEB JOHNSON I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, y... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. ... ISAAC HAYES I just wrote the song sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend. That's about it, man. You will kn... DARON MALAKIAN There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT
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ERIC ALLIN CORNELL There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas... CHRIS Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ... CHRIS Only true love will make it through the wicked world. CHRIS Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again. CHRIS I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. CHRIS ROCK Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr... CHRIS RIDDELL I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... CHRIS PINE I had a beard way before it was fashionable. CHRIS STAPLETON Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself. CHRIS JERICHO For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... CHRIS HEMSWORTH