Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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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've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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It's rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.
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I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
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I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
