Rock's gone soft, it's gone miserable and boring, there's not really much exciting about it. So it's important that we cross over,… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
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Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try… — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
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I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love… — Arca Copy Share Image
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I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
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Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
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My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
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When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life,… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
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![“[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned…” quote by Regina Spektor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/regina-spektor-3582_changed_a-s-soon-as-you-try-and-take-a-song-from_1319982.png)
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