Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
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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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From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
