Gavin Creel Quotes
Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music.
Gavin Creel
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
Flume
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert
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I love to play music.
Gavin DeGraw
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
Q-Tip
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Cameron Crowe
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
Yuna
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Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
Nile Rodgers
Chic
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For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
Martin Garrix
Area21
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When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
Bryce Dessner
The National
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.
Andrea Bocelli
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I've really never let my age get in the way of my music.
Brynn Cartelli
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Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I'm really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life - what Langston Hughes called 'laughing to keep from crying.'
Kevin Young
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
James Murphy
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
Ian MacKaye
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Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music.
Gavin Creel
