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Rolando Villazón
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“It’s a liberating feeling”
Seong-Jin Cho
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“It’s an endless journey”
Missy Mazzoli
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“Struggle is part of the process”
Benjamin Bernheim
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“This is an art form that is alive”
Philip Selway
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“Allow yourself to be in the moment”
Denzel Curry
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“I have no regrets”
Mykki Blanco
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“I was in an existential place”
Alan Menken
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“Always be in love with the process”
Matty Healy
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“Nostalgia is beautiful”
Ludovico Einaudi
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“It was like a ritual”
David Newman
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“You’re bonded to it”
Cosey Fanni Tutti
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“It’s like a metamorphosis”
William Orbit
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“I’m absolutely open”
Jan Lisiecki
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“The music speaks for itself”
Kiri Te Kanawa
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“It’s coming from your heart”
Danny Elfman
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“I’m wired in this way”
Randall Goosby
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“It’s not just notes on a page”
Sonya Yoncheva
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“Art cannot be lost”
Nico Muhly
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“Pick your battles”
Arturo Sandoval
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“Focus on today”
Flume
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“I’ve started to put life as a priority”
Syd
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“I’m ready to move forward”
Elvis Costello
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“I didn’t have some big blueprint”
Genesis Owusu
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“I’ve always known who I am”
Fana Hues
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“It feels like completion”
Sonny Rollins
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“I’m part of the universal spirit”
Arlo Parks
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“It feels like what I’m meant to do”
Peaches
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“Every kind of art is a privilege”
Debbie Harry
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“The music speaks for itself”
Sheila Atim
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“This is who we are”
Leslie Odom Jr.
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“We have to make room for all of it”
Jon Batiste
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“I’m a link in a chain”
Carla Bruni
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“The real matter is the people you love”
Jarvis Cocker
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“It’s like seeing into the future”
Andrea Bocelli
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“Life has been good to me”
Jane Birkin
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“There was a sense of being totally free”
Seth MacFarlane
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“There’s room for all”
RZA
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“I knew where to go”
Lianne La Havas
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“I don’t do it for anybody else”
Gunner Stahl
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“You can tell if it’s real or not”
Nick Mason
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“No one owes anyone anything”
Willo Perron
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“I never wanted to be very singular”
Bill Conti
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“I’m writing it for emotional reaction”
Ólafur Arnalds
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“It’s not the end of the journey”
Ludwig Göransson
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“I’m building a puzzle”
Roger Waters
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“We are on a knife’s edge”
Noah Goldstein
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“I’ve always trusted my taste”
Lee “Scratch” Perry
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“I am that I am”
The Chemical Brothers
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“That feeling lives with you”
Chilly Gonzales
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“I try to pull the curtain back”
Richie Hawtin
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“I’m interested in man and machine”
Lubomyr Melnyk
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“It has to be lived”
M.I.A.
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“I made it to where that actions begins”
Róisín Murphy
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“Everything became about music”
Paul Banks
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“I feel like they’re evocative enough”
Max Richter
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“I like to get to the essentials”
Björk
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“There is a dramatic change in the air”
Flying Lotus
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“Music wasn’t a reality for me”
Yukimi Nagano
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“I don’t feel any pressure”
Mick Rock
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“I blame the name”
Nelly Furtado
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“Let’s pull the mask off now”
Moby
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“I don’t want anything from music”
Wayne Coyne
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“You get to be a bigger version of yourself”
Clive Davis
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“You’ve got to earn it”
Alicia Keys
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“It can’t be held back anymore”
Yann Tiersen
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“Music is not language”
Jeff Mills
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“You’re only limited by your imagination”
Pusha T
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“People can hear passion”
Nils Frahm
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“Everything can be used for the music”
Grimes
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“I want to be the best”
Jóhann Jóhannsson
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“Does it speak simply and directly?”
Black Francis
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“It doesn’t feel like anger”
Mark Ronson
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“I’m very aware of my place in music”
Giorgio Moroder
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“I was always interested in the hits”
Peter Hook
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“A magic that people can tune in to”
Johnny Marr
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“Who cares about authentic?”
Hans Zimmer
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“You are forever in that dream world”
James Mercer
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“Everyone was too cool to care”
Yoann Lemoine
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“I’m not there yet”
Rita Ora
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“I didn't have the answers”
The National
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“At peace with the darkness”
Lars Ulrich
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“So far, so good”
David Byrne
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“We did okay”
Albert Hammond Jr.
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“I loved pushing that boundary”
Alexander Ebert
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“I was constantly in trouble”
Rufus Wainwright
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“I don’t preach”
Shirley Manson
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“I’m enough for me”
Neil Young
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“You have to break out of it”
Johnny Rotten
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“I love chemical imbalances”
Justin Timberlake
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“Be in the moment”
Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson
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“Money is freedom”
Nick Cave
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“I don’t think that people want to be like me”
Mick Jagger
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“Excess was the order of the day”
Patti Smith
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“Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”
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