Steve Winwood Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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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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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
