Johnny Mathis Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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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 feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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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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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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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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Since we can stream music online, it’s easier to hear music from around the world. It’s easier to stumble upon new music and artists.
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When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.
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I am happy my films have done well in Kerala.
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My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
