Alvin Morris (Tony Martin) Quotes
I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.
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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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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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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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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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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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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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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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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
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My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
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My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
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I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.
