Gary Wright Quotes
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
-
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
-
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
-
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
-
I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
-
Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
-
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
-
I speak two languages, Body and English.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
-
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
-
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
-
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
-
I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.
-
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'
-
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
