Music Quotes
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.
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My sense of style is influenced by how I feel. I want to express myself because they see you before they hear you. You want to come on stage, and what you look like should represent the song you are playing or the set you are about to play or the message in your music.
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Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
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There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.
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Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.
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I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
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I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
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I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
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If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.
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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
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I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
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I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
