#real

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. ↗

— Tom Petty

#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now. ↗

— Tom Petty

#eroded #everyone #integrity #now #own

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. ↗

— Liz Phair

#anymore #chaos #give #hack #i

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#always #been #chances #does #everything

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#enjoyed #experience #i #just #much

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves. ↗

— Liz Phair

#feel #going #guys #hear #really

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collaborating #difficult #fact #i #independence