J. Carter Brown Quotes
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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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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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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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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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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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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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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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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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
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I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
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Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.
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When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.
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I was quite naughty at school.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
