Brian Chippendale Quotes

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Brian Chippendale

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• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Influence

• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Way
  • English
  • Language

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Alive
  • Devotion

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Hate

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• 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

• I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Children
  • Science
  • Language

• Music is my first love.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • First Love

• Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Languid

• I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

  

  Matthew Underwood
  • World
  • Song
  • Waiting

• You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Proud

• I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Worry

• I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Music
  • True
  • Artist

• I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.'

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Done
  • Career
  • House

• I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Music
  • Song
  • Language