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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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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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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Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.
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The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
