Eddi Reader Quotes

#1. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

#2. You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

Andy Grove

#3. Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

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#4. Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

Barack Obama

#5. It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

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#6. But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

Aaron Neville

#7. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Harsha Bhogle

#8. A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?

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#9. I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

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#10. I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

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#11. I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

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#12. I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

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#13. I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

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#14. He strode toward the bathroom door, but Vera launched herself at him like a flying squirrel coasting to another tree.

T.S. Joyce

#15. People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

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#16. I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

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#17. I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

Felix Dennis

#18. I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

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#19. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

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