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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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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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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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 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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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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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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I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.
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I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
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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.
