Steven Wariner Quotes
When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
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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.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
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When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
