#music

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. ↗

— James Taylor

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When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again. ↗

— Andy Taylor

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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. ↗

— 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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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

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We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music. ↗

— Neil Tennant

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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. ↗

— Michael Stipe

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