Jake Owen Quotes
But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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I like music a lot.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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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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I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.
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If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.
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I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.
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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.
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But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
