Music Quotes
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I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
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I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.
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I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
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I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.
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I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
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Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.
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We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.
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You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.
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In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
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A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
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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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I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.
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I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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I've always been really passionate about music. My dad was, too, before he became a wrestler.
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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
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My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.
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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.
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After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'
