Christian Smith Quotes
The original is more musical than the club mix. I always enjoy using melodies and find it crucial for albums to have variety in styles.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
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Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.
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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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Some people do think the albums are like concept albums when they are not. That’s usually because of the artwork and the strong imagery that we use. What with the booklets and graphics and everything else and stuff like that. People get that impression. I say it with every album it’s the way it is, it’s a pretty simple approach and we try and get together the best collection of songs as best we can at any given time .... and you go with that. I mean you might look at it a year later and go back and think ‘Oh we could have done this or we could have done that’. You may think we could have second guessed this or that and we could have written a better song than that one. However at the time you’re enthusiastic about your stuff and you think that’s the best that you can come out with ..... at that time ...... you just HAVE to go with it. I don’t think you should look back over your shoulder at all, that’s always been our attitude. So that’s something that’s never changed in that respect. I mean that goes for with whatever the line up is, that’s always been the attitude. I hope that clears it up. We write the best collection of songs we can at the time and everything else fits around them .... not the other way around.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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The original is more musical than the club mix. I always enjoy using melodies and find it crucial for albums to have variety in styles.
