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"1041 Music Quotes

Who really needs a new album from me?

Album Me Needs New
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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Am Better Craig David
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I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Am I Am I Can Making
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Am Done Earned Everyone
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Any Beyond Feel Form
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Been Different Different Types Listen
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Again Always Because Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Going Just Need Obscurity
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
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Songs are more powerful than books.

Books More Powerful Songs
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

About Anything Know Line
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Big Came Got Had
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Belt Direction Hollywood Just
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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Big Hoax Life My Life
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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Been Colored Doin Folks
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Feeling Good Opera People
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

Affection Begging Out Stage
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I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

I Think Magical Marriage Most
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I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Also Learn Novel Play
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

Even Father Me Music
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
Anything Few In The Past Music
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.

Got Map Me Put
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Beautiful Beautiful Music Black Make
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Best Means Music Time
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music Smell Anywhere Invisible
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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it.

Got Song One Direction
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If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

Audience Music Painful Performer
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It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Album Easy Full Go
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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

Away Demographic Get Gonna
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I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

Because Entertainment Fan Game
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Everybody Music Only Own
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Another Berry Call Chuck
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The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.

About Frustrating Frustrating Thing Jail
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Punk Is Musical Freedom
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I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Own Jaguar That's Guitar
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Rap Music The Vital
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I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Wanted Be In Punk
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I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll Realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Blame The Average Seventeen
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