Ayumi Hamasaki quote: "In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the men...
AYUMI HAMASAKI

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL

I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened...
LAETITIA CASTA

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to gr...
ANGEL OLSEN

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallw...
SUSAN ORLEAN

Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ...
LEON BRIDGES

I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve...
EDGAR WINTER

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want ...
MISTY COPELAND

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music...
AUTRE NE VEUT

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That'...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ...
LINDA EVANS

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat...
KIESZA

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was...
MARTINA MCBRIDE

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing...
BAHMAN GHOBADI

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo...
BENJAMIN BOOKER

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ...
MAHESH BABU

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle...
ALICE WALKER

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't ...
TED DANSON

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it wa...
ANTON CORBIJN

I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus...
LAURA MVULA

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
BILL MONROE

I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself...
TEDDY SHERINGHAM

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I ...
ASHTON KUTCHER

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an except...
L'WREN SCOTT

I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe...
YUNA

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around ...
ROBERT SMITH

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' b...
JHENE AIKO

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren&#...
DRAKE

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st...
LAURA HILLENBRAND

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out fa...
JOE SACCO

In searching for myself, I have created myself.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA

I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I dou...
SAM SMITH

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really ...
BRYAN ADAMS

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to ...
HAROLD PINTER

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I ...
KANYE WEST

I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling ...
NEIL YOUNG

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me h...
DANNY BROWN

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information...
SANDRA LEE

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I k...
IAN AXEL

I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i...
JOSH MORGAN

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte...
BARBARA CORCORAN

I remember joining a boarding school in the sixth grade. I was lazy, complacent, and fat. Suddenly, ...
TWINKLE KHANNA

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outsi...
J. K. SIMMONS

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin...
TARYN MANNING

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit i...
GERI HALLIWELL

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
TITUSS BURGESS

I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi...
CILLA CALDERON

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i...
LEA MICHELE

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
ANTONY TUDOR

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which...
EMINEM

I can't imagine not having music in my life, playing for myself or for other people.
DUDLEY MOORE

There was a point in my life where ignorance ruled me. As I grew and learned, eventually my consciou...
MICHAEL ANTHONY JIMENEZ

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
FLEA

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin'...
GREGORY HINES

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
DAN HILL

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

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Ayumi Hamasaki

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

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