"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
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"Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value."
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"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."
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"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."
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"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."
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"I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
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"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
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"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
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"Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
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"A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality."
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"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is."
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"I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been."
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"The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing."
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"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
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"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."
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"I need drama in my life to keep making music."
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"Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star."
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