Jim Capaldi Quotes
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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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 means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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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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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.
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The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.
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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
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Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.
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The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.
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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
