Charlie Hunter Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I like music a lot.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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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.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
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My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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I pretty much adore all my exes. I try to stay friends with them if I can.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
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The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
