Billy Sheehan Quotes
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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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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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.
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I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
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I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
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Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.
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My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.
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Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.
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I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
