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Betty Hutton: Then the ceiling...

Betty Hutton: Then the ceiling...

Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out
I went into a spin and I started to shout
I've been hit. This...

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Frank Zappa: Music, in performance,...

Frank Zappa: Music, in performance,...

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into...

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Stevie Wonder: Many of us...

Stevie Wonder: Many of us...

Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend
Never communicating with the one who lives...

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Rodney Crowell: You learn how...

Rodney Crowell: You learn how...

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Source: In The Book of...

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Tom T Hall: Make your melodies...

Tom T Hall: Make your melodies...

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

Source:...

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Marty Robbins: I didn't choose...

Marty Robbins: I didn't choose...

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Source:...

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Ray Charles: I was born...

Ray Charles: I was born...

I was born with music inside me . . . Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my liver, my kidneys, my heart. Like my...

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John Lennon: If being an...

John Lennon: If being an...

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me...

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Fanny Brice: Your audience gives...

Fanny Brice: Your audience gives...

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an...

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Lionel Hampton: [Jazz] went from...

Lionel Hampton: [Jazz] went from...

[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You...

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Leon Blum: Let us not...

Leon Blum: Let us not...

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to...

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Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go...

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David Dinkins: Ellis Island is...

David Dinkins: Ellis Island is...

Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.

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David Dinkins: You can be...

David Dinkins: You can be...

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper...

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David Dinkins: Race relations can...

David Dinkins: Race relations can...

Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue...

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Edward Koch: I know many...

Edward Koch: I know many...

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish...

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Barack Obama: Community colleges play...

Barack Obama: Community colleges play...

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they...

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