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"1041 Music Quotes

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Able Audience Doing Feel
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
Announcement Between Distinguish Divides
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I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

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The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

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I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Album Always Another Every
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A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

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I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

Album Always Caught Get
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Always Become Better Performer
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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

Attraction Base Country Country Music
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It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.
Cool Far How How Far
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I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Country Enjoy Fun Girl
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Blues Country Kind Lyrical
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Country Diaries Dirt Excited
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I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place.

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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Am Drunken Glorious I Am
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Bring Eyes Fire Heart
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Music comes to me more readily than words.

Me More Music Readily
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Earth Else God
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Between Life Mediator Music
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Higher Music Philosophy Revelation
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

About Down Me Notes
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Cannot Comprehend Entrance Higher
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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Almost Around Began College
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

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I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Am Amnesty Course Everyone
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart

Music Reached Heaven Loving heart
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Always America Aspect Back
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I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.
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I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Done Few Grease Musicals
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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