Gabby Barrett Quotes
People that know me know that I love all kinds of genres of music and I like to sing all kinds of genres of music when I was growing up and all of the genres have influenced me in many different ways.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!
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Music is my first love.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
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People that know me know that I love all kinds of genres of music and I like to sing all kinds of genres of music when I was growing up and all of the genres have influenced me in many different ways.
