Music Quotes
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
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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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I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.
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The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
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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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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
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I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
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Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.
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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
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I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
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There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.
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I've always said that music is like literature.
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That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.
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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
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I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.
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I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.
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When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.
