Eric Avery Quotes
I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
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I only listen to Lil Wayne.
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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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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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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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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
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I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
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Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
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I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
