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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Song

"When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy."

School Song Dad
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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Song

"Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum."

Kids Song Museums
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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Song

"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."

Dream Song Music
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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun."

Writing Song Fun
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Song

"I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers."

Thinking Song Regret
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Song

"Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours."

Song Night Strength
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Russell Peters Comedian, Actor
Song

"When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like."

Thinking Song I Like You
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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Song

"There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you."

Song Spiritual Inspiration
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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Song

"I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52."

Moving Song Week
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Russell Mulcahy Film Director, Producer
Song

"We wanted to not necessarily tell the story of the video or the song, but create an ambience. And I think now, I think that's gone now. There's nothing wrong with that. But I think we were all trying to make mini feature films. I remember when we were making the Duran videos, I would crop the top and bottom of the screen with black. So that it looked more like cinema."

Thinking Song Black
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Russell Mulcahy Film Director, Producer
Song

"I wanted to make mini features. And there was a wonderful creative freedom; not necessarily copying the lyrics, but just trying to create emotion. Like the songs, you know? Just like how the song creates an emotion, I wanted the video to create an emotion."

Trying Song Creative
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them."

Song Space Stuff
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works."

Play Song Guitar
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange."

Song Littles Crafts
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing."

War Song Stars
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