Music Quotes
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
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I use Spotify to listen to music when I am taking a shower and when I am doing projects.
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We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.
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I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
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I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.
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Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
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I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.
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I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.
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Are there people's music that I don't like? Sure, there are.
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It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.
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Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.
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Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
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There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
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The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.
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I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
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And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
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Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
