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Steven Wright Comedian
Music

"I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that.""

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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Music

"Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Music

"I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Music

"I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Music

"... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music."

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Music

"It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono."

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