Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.Loudon Wainwright III
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
LaToya London -
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy -
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Xavier Rudd -
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert -
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas -
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
Kaskade -
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Edie Falco -
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. Harvey -
I think music docs could turn off some people.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice -
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Kamala Harris -
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
Dane Cook
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Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.
Andris Nelsons -
I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band -
I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.
Anthony Burgess -
When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.
Lee DeWyze -
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
Loudon Wainwright III