Music Quotes
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Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
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The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
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Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them.
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I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.
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I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.
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If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
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I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.
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The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
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The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.
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I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
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My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
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We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
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Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.
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I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
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Music is an important part of my writing process.
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Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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I love music so much; I've always played.
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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the synergy we had during the interview. People everywhere we'd go would say, 'You should be the bandleader; it would be great for jazz. It would be great for the music.' But I was completely against it.
