Music

(324 votes)   Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(320 votes)   I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what lyrics might mean, and I'm like, 'You go! I never thought of that, but that works,' ... I think true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection - or, at best, skilled presenters.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(320 votes)   The packaging is designed so that when people buy the second record, they can attach it to the first, making it a double record...

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(318 votes)   It was kind of luck or destiny that it ended up this way.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(310 votes)   The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Frank Zappa
1940-, American Rock Musician

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(307 votes)   The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the African.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(295 votes)   I'm reaching there to try and find a theme. It's just a really nice collection of songs. I think it does have an underlying theme of time and what it does to you.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(289 votes)   We've been sent here to raise hell and cause chaos.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(283 votes)   We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(282 votes)   I could definitely use a little time at home. It's been about two months on the road. The tour has gone really well, but I wouldn't mind coming home to relax for a little while.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(282 votes)   It didn't affect his ability for a long time. Heroin can be like that with musicians; I think that's why you see so many musicians drift that way, because you can remain musical for a long time. But I think, without exception, they all hit the wall eventually and the creativity goes.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(280 votes)   This award comes at a particularly nice time, as the Heartbreakers and I go into the 30th year of our career, I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(279 votes)   ...like a deer in the headlights, frozen in real time and I'm losing my mind, it's time to move on.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(270 votes)   Let me run with you tonight, I'll take you on a moonlit ride...

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(269 votes)   Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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