Andra Day Quotes
Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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I really believe in the power of music.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
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I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
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I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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I've got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
