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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Song

"When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows."

Heart Song Flower
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Robyn Hitchcock Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Song

"In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die."

Writing Mean Song
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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Song

"In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs."

Play Song Comedy
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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Song

"I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing."

Book Play Song
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Steve Young American Football Player
Song

"I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!"

Song Church Guitar
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Sufjan Stevens Musician
Song

"I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform."

Thinking Song Grieving
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Song

"Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it."

Song Christian Jesus
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Song

"My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts it's about taking people on a journey, being able to involve me completely-whether you're singing a song, whether it's in the theater, whether you're dancing-if you can make me forget I'm sitting in a seat, that's my definition of genius."

Art Song Journey
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet."

Writing Song Style
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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
Song

"The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience."

Country Song Rocks
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Mac Miller Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump."

Real Song Rapper
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Mac Miller Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things."

Thinking Giving Song
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Mac Davis Singer-Songwriter
Song

"'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word."

Real Song Cutting
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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Song

"I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'"

Art Song Queens
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Song

"Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs"

Song Drug Sierra Leone
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Song

"My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit."

Giving Song Rocks
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Song

"I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star."

Song Light Stars
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