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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of… — Miranda Lambert
I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old… — Garrison Keillor
The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter.… — Sandra Dallas
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:… — Jorma Kaukonen
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to… — Rosanne Cash
I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it. — Matt Groening
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living… — Bobby McFerrin
I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank. — Samantha Barks
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth,… — Don King
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. — Muhammad Ali
I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches. — Chuck Wepner
At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting… — Nasim Pedrad
We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities,… — Izzy Stradlin
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a… — Laurene Powell Jobs

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