Gerry Mulligan Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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He's healthy now and ready, ... Nate makes big plays. Like that last series, when we needed a couple of first downs, we put the ball in his hands and he got it done for us.
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I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
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I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
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We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.
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He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
