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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
Done Music Outrageous Some
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

About Beat Better Could
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Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Big BigPart Choose Different
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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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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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Free your mind. Free your spirit. Free your soul. Let the music take control

Free your mind Spirit Soul Music
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Expectations Industry Manage Me
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Combined File Film Film And TV
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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Making Me Music My Own
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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Nature Sound Music
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Annoying Business Commitments Music
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Back Closed Commercial Crap
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It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

Farewell Industry Just Kind
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What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

About Dead Everybody Industry
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Addicted Behind Believe Concept
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Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.

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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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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Anyone Anyone Else Branches Breathe
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

About Band Disagree Music
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I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Back Because Break Go
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Anyone Criticized Else Increase
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Business Dreamer Good Good Song
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

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We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

About Aspect Business Business Side
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

Agitation Blood Both Brought
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The moment you hear the music; the music can heal you.

Moment Hear Music Heal you
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The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Could Itself Life Music
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The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Anymore Business Interest Me
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The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

All People Die Dying Else
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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Any Better CDs Chance
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
Announcement Between Distinguish Divides
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Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Anything Anytime Apart Everybody
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A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Caused Did Ear Going
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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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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Also Beatles Because Began
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart

Music Reached Heaven Loving heart
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

Altogether Because Bone Chance
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Possible Good Sound Music
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists Big Formula Music
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Love me for me, doesn’t always have to do with the music, I’m still human.

Love me Music Human
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events

Look Right People They see
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

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