Famous Quotes: Music

How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
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I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
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So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no "perfect husband." We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?
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I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
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A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
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Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
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Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
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For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
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