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Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.
Justin Bieber
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Musician
Hours
Successful
Trying
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I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.
Kathleen Hanna
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Musician
Art
Feelings
Language
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
Kim Gordon
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Musician
Self Conscious
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I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there.
Kyle
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Musician
Versatile
Album
Possible Try Things
Catch
Vibe
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So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.
Mark Ronson
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Musician
Mean
Rapper
Writing
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I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
Matthew Sweet
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Musician
Art
Appreciate
Special
Different Level
Japanese
Seriously
Title
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She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.
Neil Tennant
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Musician
Success
Addict
Europe
Lost Everything
Smack
Big Success
Contract
Recording
Sign
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At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.
Nikki Sixx
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Musician
Birth
Information
Viruses
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SIXX: A.M. is a passion project. I think when you do things like that and put your heart into them and do your best and don't necessarily put them on a marketing grid, that's when things turn out the best.
Nikki Sixx
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Musician
Marketing
Do Your Best
Grid
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Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
Paul Simon
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Musician
Life
Flower
Love You
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
Paul Weller
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Musician
Council
Disagree
Jam
Misinterpreted
People
Style
Good Me Better
Good Better Me
Good Band
Heads
Some Things
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Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.
Peter Frampton
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Musician
Cds
People
Reality
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I'm lucky. I've got my own studio. I can make my own music, but not many people can do that. I will always be making new music, because that's what I have to do; that's why I'm here. I will always do that.
Peter Frampton
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Musician
New Music
Music People New
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In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
Ravi Shankar
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Musician
Classical Music
Lines
Western
Music Believe I Believe
Classical
Improvised
Mozart
Olden
Somehow
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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies
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Musician
Men
Money
Betray
Corruption
Crooked
Hearing
Land
Sheep
Tired
Working Man
Like
Us
Man
Never
Politicians
Working
Profits
Promises
Ruining
Treating
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You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.
Ray Manzarek
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Musician
Alive
Fun
Joy
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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Ricky Martin
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Musician
Acceptance
Conquer
Reflection
Silence
Stronger
Years
Within
Emotions
Existed
Gives
Reminded
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I'm willing to be misunderstood. I've never had a problem being misunderstood by a portion of people on any particular issue if it makes for that much more of a special experience for those who understand.
Rjd2
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Musician
Misunderstood
People
Special
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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 plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
Robert Wyatt
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Musician
Work
Mean
People
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Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.
Ronnie Hawkins
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Musician
Gang
Honorary
Motorcycle
Mayor
Member
Wherever
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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
Ronnie Wood
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Musician
New York
Hurt
Minutes
Paint
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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
Ronnie Wood
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Musician
New York
Paint
Eighties
Grocery
Hang
Hurting
Minute
York
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When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.
Steve Aoki
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Musician
Experience
Cake
Hater
Thinking
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When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.
Steven Adler
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Musician
Aerosmith
Ufo
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I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.
Steven Wilson
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Musician
Neighbors
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We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.
Synyster Gates
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Musician
Hip
Hop
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I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.
Thom Yorke
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Musician
Nuts
Self
Writing
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I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.
Tom Scholz
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Musician
Environmental
Dirty
Thinking
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The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
Tom Scholz
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Musician
Digital
Sound
Me Long Will
Cheap
Long Me Will
Complimentary
Enables
Record
The One Thing
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I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.
Tom Scholz
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Musician
Expressive
First Time
Practice
Work Out
Cool Time Work
Cool Work Time
Lay
Section
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
Walter Becker
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Musician
Aggravation
Controversy
Irritation
Scandal
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We like to be in touch with our fans, but we're also very private. 'Cause, to us, it's not about Zacky or M. Shadows or Synyster Gates. It's about Avenged Sevenfold; it's more important than any one of us.
Zacky Vengeance
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Musician
Gates
Shadows
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
Ziggy Marley
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Musician
Children
Father
Love You
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
A. J. Mclean
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Musician
Fans
Girlfriend
Harder
Married
Mean
Normal
Okay
Be Happy
Relationships
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
Adam Ant
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Musician
Daughter
Perpetual
Teenager
Life Thinking Man
Greatest Thing
Opposed
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I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.
Alexis Taylor
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Musician
Cds
Facts
Loss
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Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood
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Musician
Art
Being Yourself
Selfish
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I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Bob Dylan
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Musician
Children
Fall
Rain
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
Brandon Boyd
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Musician
Different Things
Inspiration
Inspires
Pinpoint
Wanting
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The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.
Brian Eno
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Musician
Cases
Fine
Life Art Music
Afford
Excursion
Fine Art
The Problem With
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I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
Bruce Springsteen
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Musician
Jobs
People
Unhappy
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You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
Buck Owens
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Musician
One Day
Work Morning Day
Worst Kind
Shifts
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My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.
Carrie Brownstein
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Musician
Denied
Metabolism
Pizza
Soda
Lean
Wash
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Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
Chris Cornell
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Musician
Differences
Leaving
Members
Musical
Personality
Conflicts
Due
Permanently
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I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
Chris Stapleton
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Musician
Dirt
Your Look People
Floors
Look Your People
Look Country People
Mile
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
Chrissie Hynde
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Musician
Kids
Creative
Years
Reflect
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There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.
Corey Smith
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Musician
Feelings
People
Song
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
Damon Albarn
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Musician
Invaluable
Mean
Musician
Performers
Whole
Working With Others
Working
Focusing
Help
Spend
Learn
Musicians
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To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.
Dan Mangan
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Musician
Self
Sides
Stories
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I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
Dave Mustaine
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Musician
Done
Rust
Want
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