Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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Birds are singing sweet melodies and a gentle breeze is blowing through the trees, what a perfect morning to wake you up. Good morning!
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Songs live longer than kingdoms.
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Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.
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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He’s aware of where he is and what he’s doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school ’90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.
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Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I’m cleaning the house or making dinner.
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Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there’s no music.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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That’s my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it’s not related to anything else or anyone else’s thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
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It’s always the music first for me. But if the music isn’t selling, there isn’t gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I’ve always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.
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As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great.
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I just like music all the way around the board. I can’t stick to one thing – I’ve got to move around.
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My worst fear is my music won’t connect with the public.
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My body doesn’t have any rhythm, you know. I’ve got quite good rhythm when I’m singing but my feet are very much two left feet.
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
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Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
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I wanted to be a singer forever. But it’s not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
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Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.