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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Thought

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Shine

• 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'.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Music
  • Band
  • Listening

• The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Like
  • Always
  • Been

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Small
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Schuyler Fisk
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Dive