"Most people go to their graves with their music still inside them." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Every day is a leap of faith." -- Lizz Wright, Musician, whose songs can be heard on Starbucks Hear Music™ station, XM Satellite Radio Channel 75.
via a Starbuck espresso cup, "The Way I See It #143"
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"For those of us who don't have money, there's music. For the rest of the world, there's therapy." -- Dave Jackson, Musician's Cooler episode 142
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"Mr. Jobs - If iTunes on a PC is like giving ice water to someone in hell, is iTunes with DRM* like giving an anchor to a drowning man?" -- JerseyTodd, via Twitter, to Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, about the iTunes store
*DRM = Digital Rights Management
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"While no violations were found, we are pleased to announce that Clear Channel has agreed to settle this longstanding payola investigation with the F.C.C. We believe it is time to close the door on this ongoing inquiry and move forward." -- Andrew W. Levin, Clear Channel’s executive vice president and chief legal officer, responding to a proposed settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to resolve claims that they accepted cash and other incentives in exchange for playing songs — a practice popularly known as payola
via March 6, 2007 article by Jeff Leeds in the New York Times, "Broadcasters Agree to Fine Over Payoffs" | related digg page
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"Our belly buttons aren't pretty and we can't dance. All we can do is sing and play these instruments." -- Don Henley of the Eagles, comparing his aging band to the likes of Britney Spears during a concert in New York, quoted in the New York Post.
"I've truly been blessed to have this career. I thank the Lord and the fans who have been so good to me over the years. I don't take all the credit for myself; so many have helped me get in this position." -- Percy Sledge, "Shocked" soul singer, on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, via Reuters Notable Quotes
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"I'm gonna make the tour. ... I'm not dead. I'm ready to rock, man." -- Ozzy Osbourne, heavy metal legend, saying he will resume performing in the summer, even as he recovers from a near-fatal accident that left him in a coma late last year
[via Reuters Notable Quotes]
"Man, I could have been nominated for best shoestring. I'm just glad to be here, man." -- Pharrell Williams, musician/producer, on his six Grammy Award nominations, via Reuters Notable Quotes
"We were musicians first and we dabbled in drugs and then we become drug addicts dabbling in music. We would feed our heads with drugs instead of with experience, (but) there's only three things you can get out of the drug scenario: jail, death or insanity." -- Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, describing the band's wilder days in Hollywood Reporter, via Reuters Notable Quotes
Music | "There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting can never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it." -- Marsha Norman
"... it's a lot of God and a lot of sex. Some rebirth, stagnation and death and some hope." -- Courtney Love, rock musician, on her upcoming solo album, "America's Sweetheart," in Billboard, via Reuters Notable Quotes
Music | "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley
Music | "Music is a universal language of emotion, mood, and message." --Daniel Johnson, Jr.
Music | "The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music." -- Aaron Copland, composer of "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Music | "Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation." -- John Cage
"Everybody here loves to gamble. They're backstage right now checking the latest odds on the Dixie Chicks playing the Bush family reunion." -- Reba McEntire, during her opening monologue at the 2003 Academy of Country Music Awards, which were held in Las Vegas, Nevada
