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"1041 Music Quotes

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Chords Country Song Three
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I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Anybody Between Borders Broke
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When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

Advice Any Breathing Exercise
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Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
Great Great Songs Out Songs
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I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.

Classical Could Ever I Can
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You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

About Any Could Creepy
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Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

Could Kid Make Music
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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Art Chords Country Country Music
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Always Business First Gonna
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Always Attached Giving Great
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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Brace yourself, girl, 'cause I'm dangerous. Might be bragging, but I backs it up. So come try me.

Brace Girl Dangerous Yourself
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Stage Longer Position Lucky
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Stage Minutes Fright Remember
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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Performance About Love Giving
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Rule Rollins Muscians Actor
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I love to go on stage and sing.

Love Stage Sing Go
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Mellower Angry THings Over
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I'm most comfortable on stage.

Most Stage Comfortable On
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

Party Best First Fun
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Angry Stuff Band Wail
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Want Audience Down Fail
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I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Artistic Creative Not THat
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Collector Strange Sense Music
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Enough Oxygen Stuck Walking
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Some music really does suck!

Music Suck Some Really
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Music Eyes Ears Make
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

Body Rhythm Know Quite
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Tours Anticipations Always Start
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

Crying Really Bad Vocal
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Am Never Writing Breakup
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