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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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.
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I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.
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There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.
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My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
