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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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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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'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.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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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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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
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The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!
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People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.
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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.
