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Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.
I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit
I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.
I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'
The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.
The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.
Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.
I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.
You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.
You want success and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.
There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!
It's just that as a solo artist, I have more burden and responsibilities on my shoulders.
I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.
I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, I am going straight to heaven.
Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.
I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there.
You left me for a dream you had to follow, but I thought goodbye wouldn't last that long.
I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.
I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit.
There are people who are waiting for me. I can only continue living when I stand onstage.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.