Music Quotes
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Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
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We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.
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Gospel music has gotten many people through many situations. And I pray my latest album “Bless Somebody Else” has a message that will help you through this pandemic.
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I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
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Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.
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I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
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Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
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I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.
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Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
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From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.
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I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
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You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?
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Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.
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Sound should bring you in. We have people in all these specialized departments to make it one whole. They are supposed to work together to bring us into their world, not push us away. For example, rock music has to be loud, but it doesn't have to be too loud.
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The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
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I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
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Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life.
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
