Kenny Rogers Quotes
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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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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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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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 is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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And I always try to make a clean, honest, product and ideas for people to get into that can transcend time. Like the Dougie.
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Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.
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Replace judgment with curiosity.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
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I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.
