Carlo Grante Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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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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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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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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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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My music is jazz.
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We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'
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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
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All me and my brother knew was sports - music was never something I ever really thought of.
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If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.
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What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
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Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
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My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer to sing.
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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
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With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
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I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.
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Let's just say musicals aren't really my thing!
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Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
