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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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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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.
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I was never a prodigy.
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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
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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 found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
