Amanda Lee Williford (Willa Ford) Quotes
I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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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'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.
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'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'
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I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.
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I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.
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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
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I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
