Music Quotes
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I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
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I put music on and I drive around town.
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I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
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I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic.
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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
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My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
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I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
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I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
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I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.
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I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
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I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.
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I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
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I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.
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Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer - instead of the rainy reality outside.
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Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
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We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.
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I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from your own head which is the most authentic thing of all.
