Music Quotes
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
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I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.
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When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
