Music Quotes
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I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
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I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
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To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
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Making music was always a big interest for me.
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I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.
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When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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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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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.
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I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
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From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
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I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the loop with the music team till the song is ready.
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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
