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Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

— Butch Trucks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

— Tori Amos

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

— Don Henley

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

— Evelyn Glennie

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

— Yelawolf

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

— David Sanborn

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

— Tom Petty

The musicians in the band, and myself as a performer, love the risks of the unpredictable and the feeling of jumping off cliffs musically.

— Jenny Scheinman

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

— Joel Madden

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

— Ikue Mori

✗Opposing Perspectives

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

— Nancy Sinatra