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“Work is a four-letter word.”

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Author:Cilla Black

“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.”

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Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

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Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.”

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Author:Michel Petrucciani

“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

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Author:Noel Coward