Music Quotes
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
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Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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The coolest thing, too, is that people that have never even seen 'One Tree Hill' tell me, 'I love your music.' And I'm like, 'Oh, do you watch the show?' And they say 'No.' And to me that's even cooler because that means I'm actually starting to get country fans.
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I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
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If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
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I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
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I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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You're not supposed to say the word 'cancer' in a song.And tellin' folks Jesus is the answer can rub 'em wrong.It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns, and mama, yeah that might be true.But this is country music and we do.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
