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?

Amanda Lee Williford

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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.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Music
  • Ready
  • Hip Hop

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Prayer

• Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Live
  • Industry

• I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Music
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Music
  • Bridge

• There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

  

  Paul Oakenfold
  • Music
  • Chinese
  • Influence

• Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Food
  • Sometimes
  • Healthy

• 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?

  

  Amanda Lee Williford
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Image