Schuyler Fisk Quotes
I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.
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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
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I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right.
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I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.
