Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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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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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
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Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.
