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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • History
  • Albums

• I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Me
  • Look
  • Challenges

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Always
  • Solo
  • Mix

• Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Musical

• I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Rock
  • Styles
  • Funky

• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • New
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Exist

• I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Loved
  • Show
  • Musical

• 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.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Fans

• 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.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • World
  • Music
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Explore

• 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.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Lasts
  • Track

• I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Art
  • Business
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Father
  • Influence
  • Musical

• You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Together
  • Movie

• Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.

  

  Ovid

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Christian Smith
  • Musical
  • Albums
  • Original