Asher D (Ashley Walters) Quotes

Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.

Asher D

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Me

• I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heart

• My music is a luxury.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

  Randy West
  • Career
  • Me
  • Radio

• I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Real
  • Gold

• I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Successful

• I usually work with artists only, so I do my research on them first, then I listen to their previous material and watch interviews they did. That way, I could get a wider idea of where they come from and what their taste in music is.

  

  Claudia Brant
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Taste

• For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

  

  John Howard
  • Done

• It’s pretty good, but it’s alright.

  

  Beetlejuice
  • Good
  • Career
  • Alright

• Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.

  

  Asher D
  • Music
  • Career
  • Successful