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26696 quotes by 11156 authors
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The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to…
— Sam Bush
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Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a…
— Naomi Ragen
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I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered…
— Unknown Author
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the…
— Kinky Friedman
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
— Mason Cooley
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I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
— Dorothy Fields
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;…
— John Fowles
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These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs…
— Ani DiFranco
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley.…
— Steve Earle
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back…
— Bonnie Baker
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
— Robert Burns
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The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
— C.S. Lewis
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour…
— Chuck Berry
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get…
— Lauryn Hill
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You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
— Peter Shilton
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Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as…
— Morris K. Jessup
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While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.
— Craig Kilborn
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Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?
— Groucho Marx
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
— Sylvia Plath
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