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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

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I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

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What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

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Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

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I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

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I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

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In some ways, I'm just a visual person.
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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

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I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.

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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

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As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

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I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

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It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

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I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

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When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

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Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.
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As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

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Hard work is very important, don’t compromise it for anything.

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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is rather acting despite fear.

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The quality of your life is a product of your faith. This is why the enemy wants you depressed and afraid (which is the opposite of faith). Choose to Walk by faith today.

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The power of association cannot be overemphasized. Hangout with small-minded people and you would dream of small things, spend time with overachievers and you’d not only dream big but also achieve big things.

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With all that’s happening in the country, let’s not forget our fundamental human rights. It is okay to voice your opinion.

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Life is a mind game; you’re limited only by your thoughts.
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Your focus on the loss of yesterday is killing your opportunity to win today. Forget the past and pay attention to the future.

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Financial growth and sustainability do not depend on how much you earned, But HOW MUCH YOU INVEST AND ALSO HOW MUCH YOU SAVE!!!

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Quit struggling for titles, sometimes it takes a title-less man to humble the world.

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Until you leave your comfort zone, growth and transformation will never happen. Take that risk, start that business, host that conference, submit that proposal, a transformation begins with a step in the right direction.

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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

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I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.
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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

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So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

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