Dave Koz Quotes
Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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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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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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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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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
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Life should be art, right?
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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.
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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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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
