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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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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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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Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.
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I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.
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In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.
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...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
