Jon Bellion Quotes
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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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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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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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.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
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Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.
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I don't know much about my biological background.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.
