Eliza Griswold Quotes

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

Eliza Griswold

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• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
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  • Music
  • Unite

• I like music a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Music
  • Like
  • Lot

• This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Country

• While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Music
  • Me
  • King

• If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music

• Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Great
  • Music
  • Small

• One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Time
  • Music
  • She

• Music is pretty much all I do.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Pretty

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

  

  Claude Debussy

• No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.

  

  Christina Hendricks

• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Country
  • Family
  • Community

• If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Music
  • Slavery
  • Poems