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" From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks. "

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" Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around. "

" The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head. "

" Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her. "

" Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us. "

" If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something. "

" Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. "

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" Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy. "

" Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move. "

" The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites. "

" I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce. "

" Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste. "

" We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice. "

" We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all. "

" Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home. "

" Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide. "

" When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine. "

" Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants. "

" There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain. "

" Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant. "

" At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union. "

" The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers. "

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" The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next. "

" The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart. "

" Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music. "

" We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are. "

" Her makeup, hair and general quirkiness overshadow the fact that Cyndi Lauper was one the most soulful chicks to come out of the '80s. "

" I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air. "

" We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath. "

" My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness. "