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.
Quotes to Explore
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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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.
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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.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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.
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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!
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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Music is my first love.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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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.
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I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
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I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
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Every team believes they are better after the transfer window.
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I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
