Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes
Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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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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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.
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I don't belong to anyone.
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It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
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With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.