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The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it...

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I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, wh...

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What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the musi...

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Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

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Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

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Julian BarnesThe Noise of Time

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I ...

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I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film wa...

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When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three wer...

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You’ve got that smile,That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday,That you keep that smile.Yeah...

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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head...

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Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of...

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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the ...

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heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simp...

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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in t...

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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and...

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Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

If we could only turn back time

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, an...

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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Tale of Despereaux

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, ...

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I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People...

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Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect ro...

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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You ...

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Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

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Keith RichardsAccording to the Rolling Stones

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

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Keith RichardsKeith Richards: In His Own Words

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. T...

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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll o...

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You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...

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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...

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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can cha...

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Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something...

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I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's gre...

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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a l...

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Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's alr...

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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they o...

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Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversati...

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I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs in...

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Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late ni...

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And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...

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I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time off...

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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care a...

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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do...

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I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

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Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound ...

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My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual...

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I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit s...

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So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this ...

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We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Ga...

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Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their ...

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A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for m...

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I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I ...

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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothin...

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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...

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When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co...

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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate agains...

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Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes...

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Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothin...

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And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig...

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I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fel...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

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Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself...

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No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a ...

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Music is only love looking for words.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better ...

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People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist ind...

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...

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What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music h...

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Leo TolstoyThe Kreutzer Sonata

After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince A...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than...

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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly witho...

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Leonard BernsteinThe Joy of Music

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shoulde...

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Leonard CohenStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.