Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit… — MC Ren Copy Share Image
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Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
“Will she disapprove of me?" Helen asked. Rhys tried to imagine what his mother would make of this subtle, incandescent creature with… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
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