Jonathan Jackson Quotes
For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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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 got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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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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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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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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Lensko is a friend of mine with a great talent! The way he progresses his tracks is so unique, just the way he puts everything together is so different from what I usually hear nowadays in the EDM-world.
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London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.
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When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.
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Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.
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All my childhood dreams have come true.
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For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.
