Anthony Hamilton Quotes

You have to be who you are when you do music.

Anthony Hamilton

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Music
  • May
  • Kids

• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • School
  • Why
  • Year

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Become
  • Rhythm

• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Great
  • Music
  • Love

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Community
  • College

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.

  

  Tyler James Williams
  • Music
  • Live
  • Sleep

• I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • People
  • Trying
  • American

• I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • True

• I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Never

• You have to be who you are when you do music.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Music