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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.
- Nov 07, 2020
The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play no instruments.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not into one-hit wonders.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020