Music Quotes
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.
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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
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Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.
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It’s so awesome to think that people all over the world are listening to your music. People are just getting into Wildstreet, and they find that we’ve been a band for 13 years. It’s just really cool.
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I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
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A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
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When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.
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Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.
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I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.
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Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
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I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.
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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
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I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
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For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
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With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
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If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.
