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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...
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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way…
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground,…
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from…
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who…
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I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after…
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and…
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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and…
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I…
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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I…
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Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on…
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I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted…
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number…
— Robert Wyatt
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I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from…
— Catherine McCormack
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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
— Monica Ali
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly…
— Beth Ditto
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's…
— Talib Kweli
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal…
— Yael Naim
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