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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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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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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'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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The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
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There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.
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When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
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My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
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It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.
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The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.
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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?
