Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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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 knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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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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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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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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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
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If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
