Music Quotes
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I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.
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I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.
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I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.
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It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.
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If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.
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I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
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I think the ability to make a living playing music was a huge relief from the pressures of having to choose between “reality” and what was looked at as “fantasy land”.
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
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I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.
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I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
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I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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I don't think country music needs saving from anything.
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I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
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The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.
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Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
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Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
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I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.
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I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.
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I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.
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I'm the kid of baby boomers, and the baby boomers listened to rock-and-roll, not thinking that Sinatra and Bennett were cool. I discovered this music on my own, which is why I really adopted it as my own music.
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Music expresses - you express yourself with music.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
