William Collins Quotes
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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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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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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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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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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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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 have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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My issue was I was always the friend and never the girl, so I always had crushes on guys, and they all wanted to date my friends.
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I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
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We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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O Music! sphere-descended maid, / Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
