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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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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It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.
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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.
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I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say, melodies I hear in my head, and little musical parts I may stumble across. I write them down or record them on my phone. Whatever I need to do to keep the idea for later when I have the time to sit down with it. So writing for me is a 24/7 pursuit.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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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.
