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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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Freddie Mercury Musician, Singer
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"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me."

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like"

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song.""

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Woody Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
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"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that."

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Chris Brown Singer, Songwriter, Dancer
Song

"Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'."

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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
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"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea."

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