Music Quotes
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I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.
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People that know me know that I love all kinds of genres of music and I like to sing all kinds of genres of music when I was growing up and all of the genres have influenced me in many different ways.
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I privilege the music over the lyrics.
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With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
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When we started writing this kind of music in the beginning, I didn't think that many people would listen to it, but over the years our fan base just kept growing and growing. Now, it's like we do it for us and our fans.
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I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff.
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I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
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I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.
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I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
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When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
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Music is half the film.
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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.
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People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
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The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams... That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.
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I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.
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What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.
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It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.
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If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.
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I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
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I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.
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I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.
