Music Quotes
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Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
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I've always been about wanting people to spread my music and share it. This way, it allowed me to adapt in real time.
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I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.
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I've always stood up for country music.
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My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.
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I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.
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Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
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My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.
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I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.
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I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
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My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.
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It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.
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Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
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I don't believe in a hope chest of music. This is all new music that I've written over the last couple years, so none of it is old-fashioned or outdated.
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I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.
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Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
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The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that.
