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• Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

  Bryan White

  Music, Country, Real

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• There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mean, Musician, Example

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• Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Summer, Brother, Fun

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, 1999.

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

  Michael Jackson

  Color, Boundaries, No Boundaries

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2018

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Meaningful, Teacher, Pain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Emotional, Musical, Pieces

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• Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Way, Fit, Salsa

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.

  Anthony Evans

  Clearing Out, People, Scary

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

  Pete Seeger

  New York, Father, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Different, Inspired, Sometimes

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• My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Being Yourself, Inspiration

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• Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

  Pete Seeger

  Air, Looks, Lessons

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

  Michael Buble

  Nice, Guy, Trying

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• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Thinking, Style, Irony

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

  Roddy Doyle

  Hands, Years, Musician

  "Sexy Dublin? It's a con" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2004.

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• My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

  Chris Thile

  Writing, Would Be, Baroque Music

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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Powerful, Home

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• We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

  Steve Miller

  Real, Rocks, Play

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• Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

  Stanley Clarke

  Play, People, Giving

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• I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Song, Art

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• THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

  Ken Hensley

  Musician, Band, Firsts

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• A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Inspire, Mediocre

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