Creed Bratton Quotes

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

  

  Larry David
  • Pretty
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
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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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
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• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  

  Paloma Faith
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• My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

  

  Questlove
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• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Home
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• My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

  

  bell hooks
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• I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

  

  Jaden Smith
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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.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
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• In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

  

  Mark Waters
  • College

• I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.

  

  Blake Shelton
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• Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

  

  Creed Bratton
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Parents