Johnny Mathis Quotes
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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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'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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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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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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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 used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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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 am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
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The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
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When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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My music has always been enough.
