"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore."
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"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
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"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
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"There is only one better thing than music - live music."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
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"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it."
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"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
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"The thing about my music is, there really is no point."
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"I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
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"There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better."
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"Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them."
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"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
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"Music is love in search of a voice."
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"The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it."
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"[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning."
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"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only."
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"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
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"So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music."
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"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."
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