John Newman (John William Peter Newman) Quotes
I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.
John Newman
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
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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.
Dan Reynolds
Imagine Dragons
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
Mandy Moore
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
Kaley Cuoco
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
Barbara Hambly
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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
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
Kat Edmonson
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
G-Eazy
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
Ian Anderson
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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
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
Sam Hunt
