Clint Smith Quotes
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.
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Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.
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In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
