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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Business Constant House Life Mayhem Music Noise Our Should Socializing

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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Cover Elvis Enough Get Know Never Next Proud Rolling Rolling Stone Smart Stone Stuff Very Write I Write

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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Also Chance Feel Hits Incredible Just Killer Lot Only Songs Spend Survive Time Way Writing I Feel I Can

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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Before Bursting Count Ella Fitzgerald Frank Frank Sinatra House Learned Literally Lyrics Music Played Seemed Sinatra Singing Song Talking Vocabulary

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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Deeply Diamond Empathy Feeling Frozen Heard Heart Man Masterpiece Me Moved Narrator Neil Place Recess School Smashed Solitary Stood

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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Age Brilliant Canada Golden Golden Age Listeners Lost Mainstream Missed Music Out Particularly Radio Remembering Worth

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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Artists Black Centre Discovers Front Justin Justin Bieber Tell Usher You

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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Artists Beasts Become Fans Few Hit Like Lock Many Me Means Mysterious People Rather Slippery Songs Than Them

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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.

~Dan Hill

Topics: According Been Book Changing Concerts Finding Keep Music Music World Out Plan Second Strictly Things Unfold World

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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

~Dan Hill

Topics: Argument Cares Circle Close Creative Faster Fists Humiliation Inferior Intelligence Little Lose Losing Mills No One Cares Nothing Our Sixties Weird Who

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: June 3rd, 1954

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