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• I’m just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

  Spike Lee

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  Tags in Streets, Music

• It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

  John Mayer

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Music, Done

• I’m a good music provider, and I’m fine with that. I’m a quality music manufacturer.

  John Mayer

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  Tags in Good, Music, Quality

• I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

  John Mayer

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  Tags in Music, Possible, Engineer

• There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

  John Mayer

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  Tags in Music

• Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that’s just not going to happen in my lifetime.

  John Mayer

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  Tags in Music, Happen, Playing

• It’s a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it’s pretty amazing.

  Dave Matthews

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  Tags in Music, Amazing

• In music, which was my world before, you’ve got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

  Andrew Mason

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  Tags in Music, Great, Thought

• I wouldn’t say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don’t want to stand out; you want to blend in.

  Debbie Gibson

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  Tags in Music, School

• The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I’m humbled. I’m just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

  Cliff Martinez

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  Tags in Music, Better, Come

• I’m free to make music – I’m sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can’t wait to put out.

  Cliff Martinez

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  Tags in Music, Free, Put

• I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

  Cliff Martinez

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  Tags in Music, Little, Down

• I think I sound like a fella who’s always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

  Tony Martin

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  Tags in Music, Through, Making

• No matter how many times people say it – ‘Oh, I’m just writing this for myself’ ‘Oh, I’m just doing this for myself’ – nobody’s doing it for themselves! You’re doing it for an audience. So whether I’m performing or writing a book or playing music, it’s definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Music, Myself, Book

• I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Music, Without

• I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there’s a lot of bluegrass there.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Music, Great, Listen

• I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Music, Nice

• I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I’ve played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Music, Through, Away

• I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called ‘Ooh La La,’ that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Music, Song, Fresh

• Music moves me – duh – and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effec

  Yann Martel

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  Tags in Music