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7898 Musician Quotes

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

Emmy Got Grammy Like
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God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

God Important More Sleep
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Across Die Great Humour
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I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.
Business Get Time You
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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Feminism Hate Means Men
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

Actually Deep Mind Sometimes
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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

Dead Drink Got Manager
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Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Clothes Complain Hear Loud
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When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

Fabulous Feel Feet Greatest
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I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Absolutely Age Car Refuse
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Else Everything Experienced Failing
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You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
Laugh Sing Talk You
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There have been great things that happened to me.

Great Happened Things Been
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Album Always Could Make
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Behave Hold Important People
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

Happening Life Like Lot
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You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Always Flowers God Grow
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Alone Feel Kid Little
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The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Better Practice Study Time
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Down Driven Executive Follow
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Away Being Civil Come
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Enjoyed Everything Famous Full
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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

Able Anonymous Create Feels
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

Able Every Fame Freedom
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

Among Color Feel Folks
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

Makeup Recognize Saw Without
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Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Fashion History Love Makeup
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Ahead Brave Creative Like
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

Wall Step Beyond Going
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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Bottom Line Picture Understand
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Blues Dance Jazz Learned
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I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

Alternative Difficulty Figuring Lot
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Come Endure Great Line
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

Brain Different Girl Grow
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Authority Fame Figures Finally
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I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Another Anyone Ever Everybody
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Arts Business Good Grow
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I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

Busy Give Gonna Hoot
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My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Affect Experience Joyful Learned
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Behave Judge Look Myself
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

Choirs Grew Group Love
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

Choir Early Important Itself
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

Careful Colors Energy Lights
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

Always Different Kind Little
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

Brutality Community Down Educational
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I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.

Time Spirit Cut Dude
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