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Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

— Jayson Blair

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

— George Michael

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

— Chubby Checker

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

— Paula Cole

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

— Emil Zatopek

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

— Martha Gellhorn

'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

— Trent Reznor

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

— William Sanderson

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

— Marilyn Manson

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

— Burt Lancaster