"I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it."
-James Taylor
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"Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music."
-James Taylor
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
-James Taylor
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"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
-James Taylor
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"Music is like a huge release of tension."
-James Taylor
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"I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
-James Taylor
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"I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear."
-Diane Kruger
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"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."
-Lawrence Welk
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"I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me."
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"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
-Lawrence Welk
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"I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really."
-Steven Patrick Morrissey
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
-Baruch Spinoza
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