Bonnie Baker Quotes
I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.
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Music is my first love.
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I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.
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I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
