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I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

— Edie Brickell

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Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

Maybe you ride a different wave.
Maybe you catch another ray of the sun
That I've just begun to feel.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

I don't believe in hatred anymore.
I hate to think of how it felt before
When anger overwhelms your very soul
It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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