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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Characteristic Fewer How Improved
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Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
Down Get Here Leave
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My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

Anything Anything Else Country Country Music
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I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

About Another Artists Bitter
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My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Best Every Every Night Give
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To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

Artist Certainly Could Crossed
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You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

Being Country Life Little
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My thing is to get up there and have a good time and give the fans all you can and appreciate them spending their money and being in the stands - and just be appreciative of them cheering when you come onstage.

Appreciate Appreciative Being Cheering
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When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

About Best Came Eyes
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

Anything Biggest Career Day
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That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

Acts Beauty Big Business
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I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Away Career Get I Can
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My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Album Better Doing Every
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
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Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Better Fellow Give Greater
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If everyone can be as good as Madiba or Mother Theresa it could work. But people are not that nice. People act in their self interest.

Everyone Good People Nice
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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Account Am Cannot Distance
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Alone Another Close Dance
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

About Also Calling Central
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Enslaving Nigerians has never been so easy with branding. There's no struggle necessary they will enter the one chance with a smile.

Enslaving Nigerian Branding Struggles
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Never wear spiritualism as a badge to decorate your ego. You can choose to see in a society where it is profitable to be willfully blind.
Never Spiritualism Ego Decorate
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Your spiritual journey is not much of a journey of discovery but of recovery. You are uncovering your own inner nature. It is already there. Don’t allow anyone sell to you what was stolen from your pocket.

Spiritual Journey Discovery Recovery
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Follow May lead Leave Trail
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There is no respect for others without humility in ones self.

No respect Others Humility Ones self
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I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

Bit Care Does Don'tCare
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Between Come Difference Dinner
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Anything Awful AwfulLot Bothered
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There’s absolutely no doubt you can be slightly better tomorrow than you are today.
Absolutely No doubt Slightly better Today
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There are people seeking your attention now that you are treating with disdain. Note that a future looms, where you will wish you had treated them better.

Seeking Attention Treating Disdain
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You SHOULD be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something that’s meaningful. But you SHOULD BE MORE afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable.

You should Afraid Risks Meaningful
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Foreign Lands Only Traveler
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Body Come Crying House
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I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Anything Definitely Felt Ghosts
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Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Dying Fat FatMan Get
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The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Brightly Burn Entertainment EntertainmentIndustry
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I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Am Amnesty Course Everyone
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Art Better Connecting Connection
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Teacher Affects eternity Never Influence stops
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Appealing Could Dress Every
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Such thing Underestimate Average intelligence
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty Responsibility Free individual
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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Go IThink Maybe Moon
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Element Esteem Free FreeSociety
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