Mariah Carey Quotes
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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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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I like music a lot.
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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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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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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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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
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But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
