Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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I like music a lot.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.
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Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.
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I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.
