#our music

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ↗

— Prince

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There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

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Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way. ↗

— James Taylor

#autobiographical #being #especially #everyone #get

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

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The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on. ↗

— Brad Delson

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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#beautiful #been #close #darkest #even

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe. ↗

— James Young

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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things. ↗

— James Young

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