Alan Powell Quotes
Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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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 perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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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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When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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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.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.
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Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.
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All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.
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If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
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When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.
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Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.
