Vance Gilbert Quotes
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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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'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
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We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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Why people used to go to clubs was to have a great time and to forget their troubles and worries and stresses of the week and enjoy themselves and I think that the music was a huge, important part of that.
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Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.
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Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.
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The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
