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7898 Musician Quotes

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Backward Find Focus Forward
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

Aggressiveness Emotional Emotional Level Guess
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Around Less Money More
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I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

Girl I Love I Think Just
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

About Area Away Become
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
Art Even I Think Music
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Brother Call Career Close
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Accordance Better Conduct Dad
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Anyone Bothering Could Done
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

Crazy Favourite I Love Like
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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

About Bad Destroy Feel
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

Actor Author Burden Combine
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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Check Hospitals Like Lot
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

About Bodies Energies Everything
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Get Indispensable Information Leg
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Commercial Going Gonna Idea
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Australia Basketball Really Watch
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
Civil England Living Wonderfully
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Always Am Away Back
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

Although Dress Fun Look
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Art Censor Go Me
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
Call Good Just People
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

Baby Been Cry Forget
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

Fair Prudent Say Side
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Getting Getting Older Higher Older
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

Crazy Kind Like Mom
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Basically Like Musical Plumbing
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

Always Art Bad Class
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

Bring Butter Concert Guy
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

Because I Love Love Name
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

About Being I Love Love
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

Bed Before Cloth Details
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Anything Big Big Mouth Creative
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
About All Things Always Creative
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Creating Down Hardly Lead
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Say What Want Say
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Throughout My Career Fed
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Trust Hard Come That's
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

When Fan Paul's Boutique
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Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Everybody Has Goals Aspirations
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Be Stupid For Me
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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Before I Was Famous
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