John Fogerty Quotes
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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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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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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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'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.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.
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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.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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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.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
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We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.
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Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
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Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway.
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Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
