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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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.
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That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
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My music has always been enough.
