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Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on.…

— Lykke Li

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five…

— Chris O'Donnell

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

— Chad Hurley

You have to play hard every night.

— Lauri Markkanen

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

— Chuck Feeney

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more…

— Yo-Yo Ma

If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

— Tom Thibodeau

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical…

— Daphne Gottlieb

I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and…

— Tammy Blanchard

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone…

— Kate Micucci

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be…

— Diane von Furstenberg

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without…

— Sheri L. Dew

I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team,…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We…

— David Tepper

I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore…

— Justin Hayward

For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when…

— Mary Roach

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

— Alexander Hanson

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't…

— Lykke Li

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to…

— Gary Shteyngart

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

— Thomas Mars

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

— Birdy

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

— John Oates

There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to…

— Talib Kweli

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing…

— Jake Shimabukuro

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead…

— John Cassavetes