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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

— Eddie Murphy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

— Albert Hammond, Jr.

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

— Jeremih

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

— Ron White

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

— Adam Carolla

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

— Richard Rodgers

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

— Skylar Grey

You have to be who you are when you do music.

— Anthony Hamilton

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

— Emmy Rossum

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

— Baz Luhrmann

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen