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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
D'angelo
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Singer-Songwriter
Display
Masculine
Sensitive
Big Fan
Perfectly
Robinson
Smoky
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Every artist wants to feel like they're still valid in a contemporary way. But you can't be so arrogant not to think that people who have thrown down their hard-earned money don't want to see and hear the things they want.
Dennis Deyoung
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Singer-Songwriter
Arrogant
Contemporary
Thrown
Money People Way
Money People Feel
Valid
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What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.
Dennis Deyoung
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Singer-Songwriter
Cornerstone
Reflected
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A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.
Dolly Parton
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Singer-Songwriter
Baby
Care
Real
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I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
Ellie Goulding
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Singer-Songwriter
Jeans
Leather
Rock Star
Skinny
Baggy
Constantly
Wearing
Jacket
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When I was younger, I used to be the cheater. But I'm not talking about going all the way.... I wasn't doing that in high school! I'd have boyfriends and then spring break would come around and I'd be a little bit naughty.
Fergie
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Singer-Songwriter
Cheater
School
Spring
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Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. What I love about it now is touring without the guilt. Now it's like nothing is being held back. You get to eat mashed potatoes with both hands instead of one. It's fantastic.
Garth Brooks
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Singer-Songwriter
Fantastic
Guilt
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It was your song that made me sing It was your song that gave me wings It was your light that shined guiding my heart to find This place where I belong It was your song Dreams can come true With God's great angels like you
Garth Brooks
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Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Angel
Song
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I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.
Gavin Friday
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Singer-Songwriter
Sports
Children
Football
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I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
George Clinton
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Singer-Songwriter
Apollo
Broadway
Circles
School
Theater
Tin
Tin Pan Alley
Used
Time Work Music
Alley
Circle
Full
Work Time Music
Pan
Skipping
Worked
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There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
Guy Clark
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Singer-Songwriter
You Can Do It
Rules
Across
Brought
Just Kind
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
Jackson Browne
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Singer-Songwriter
Mean
Song
Writing
Life Love Living
Instrument
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
James Taylor
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Singer-Songwriter
Ice
Past
Years
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When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.
Jamie Hince
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Singer-Songwriter
Village
Grid
Loop
Near
Rural
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But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.
Jason Mraz
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Singer-Songwriter
Body
Companion
Guitar
Heart
Human Voice
Perfect
Vibrations
Voice
Your Body
Rest
Gut
Hear
Hits
Vibration
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I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
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Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Music
Heart
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I think that's really really important, you can't get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don't think money should be motivation for anything because I don't believe that it has any value.
Jhene Aiko
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Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Motivation
Thinking
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I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.
Jill Scott
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Singer-Songwriter
Adults
Differences
Long
Mummy
Time Long Long Time
Time Long Feel
Turning
Enjoying
Grown-Up
Peak
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
John Prine
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Singer-Songwriter
Dedicated
Patient
Thanks
Life My Life Attention
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
Johnny Cash
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Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
Kate Bush
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Singer-Songwriter
Isolated
Situation
Unreal
Life Situation People
Life People End
Incredibly
Tour
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I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.
Kurt Vile
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Singer-Songwriter
Forever
Mixing
Song
Sure
Awesome
High
Record
Sit
Stoked
Super
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I like that I stand for something like American Idol which helps musicians and artists get out there. It's important to have shows like Idol because it's so hard to get into the music industry nowadays - nearly impossible.
Lee Dewyze
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Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Important
Musician
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The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.
Lee Hazlewood
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Singer-Songwriter
Dozen
Lines
Three
Two
Waiting
Time Waiting Wait
Time Waiting Your
Wait
Trailer
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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
Leonard Cohen
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Singer-Songwriter
Inspiration
People
Style
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On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud
Lisa Marie Presley
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Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Generations
Three
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I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.
Louis Tomlinson
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Singer-Songwriter
American Music
Fans
Massive
Singers
Stuff
Acoustic
Ben
Ed Sheeran
Singer
James
Songwriter
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The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
Mario
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Singer-Songwriter
Fish Bowls
Portfolios
Views
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Most Americans I play for are clueless as to who Richard Ramirez was, so you can imagine how audiences in Portugal react. I'm not saying they don't enjoy the music; I'm just saying they're a little lost on some references.
Mark Kozelek
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Singer-Songwriter
Clueless
Portugal
Audiences
React
References
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I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time
Marvin Gaye
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Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Overcoming
People
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I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.
Mary Gauthier
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Singer-Songwriter
Birth
Mother Me Father
Rarely
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I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.
Michael Jackson
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Singer-Songwriter
Dance
Dancing
People
Thinking
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Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson
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Singer-Songwriter
Cried
Dark
Everyday
Father
Hated
Mirrors
Pimples
Shy
Used
Myself Mirror Face
Myself Mirror Me
Face
Badly
Myself Face Look
Hide
Mirror
Teased
Yes
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My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever even brought it up. I imagine just looking at me, they were like "Not an army officer."
Mike Doughty
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Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Army
Military
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'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is what I did. The director for 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' did not want that at all.
Mike Patton
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Singer-Songwriter
Numbers
Solitude
Themes
Variations
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There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.
Moby
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Singer-Songwriter
Sports
Abuse
Animal
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A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.
Moby
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Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Believe
Demise
Song
Collection
Album
Buy
Tries
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I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.
Nanci Griffith
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Singer-Songwriter
Done
Earth
Thinking
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess
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Singer-Songwriter
Last Year
Success Money Me
Guys
Realize
You Guys
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That's what's cool - you don't know what your kids are gonna be drawn to or what's gonna excite them and what's gonna motivate them. So it's cool to see their personalities develop and see the things that they lean toward.
Nick Lachey
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Singer-Songwriter
Drawn
Excite
Lean
Motivate
Personalities
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That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.
Paolo Nutini
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Singer-Songwriter
Music
Mind
Redeeming
Good Your Mind
Good Music Mind
Good Music Free
Free
Context
Good Thing
Put
Sing
Stages
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It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.
Paolo Nutini
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Singer-Songwriter
One Day
Progression
Stripes
Great Day One Day
Great Day Never
Definitive
Earn
Towards
Stray
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Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.
Patrick Stump
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Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Kids
Silly
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith
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Singer-Songwriter
Active
Concern
Doing Good
Feminist
Gender
Good Work
Issues
Movement
Work Good Doing
Work Good Good Work
Biggest
Issue
Mental
Pursuits
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I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.
Patti Smith
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Singer-Songwriter
Early Work
Experimentation
Work Me People
Drew
New Material
Revisiting
Suffer
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Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs admit that the phenomenon of having them simply arrive feels magical.
Paul Zollo
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Singer-Songwriter
Song
Spiritual
Writing
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The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
Robbie Robertson
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Singer-Songwriter
Folk Music
Mixing
Mountain
Ultimate
Music People New
Gospel
Blues
Folk
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You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.
Ronald Isley
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Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Brother
Deviate
Records
Trying
Family Myself Always
Brothers
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There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.
Sara Bareilles
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Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Sound
Thinking
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If I had more time, I could've utilized the stage more and turned it into my own but since I used all my energy writing and producing songs, my mind was blank when it came to my performances. That's what I regret the most.
Seungri
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Singer-Songwriter
Regret
Song
Writing
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