Music Quotes
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I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
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Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I'm really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life - what Langston Hughes called 'laughing to keep from crying.'
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Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.
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I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
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If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
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I tend to jot down music.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.
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For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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Somebody that's not real. They go in the studio and all of the sudden become hard, when they used to do dance music.
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My whole goal is to be honest and sincere with the music I'm making.
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I have a love of baseball and a love of music.
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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
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I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.
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There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.
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I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
