Music Quotes
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I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
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I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.
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I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.
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Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
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When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
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Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.
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I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.
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I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
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The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.
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I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.
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I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.
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Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos.
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
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I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines – of course, I do love a good story.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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In Paris, I was really singing for the sake of living. But eventually people said, 'Keep going; you've got a great voice,' and I started having confidence in my voice all of a sudden. That's when I started creating my own music.
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It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
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I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.
