Quotes about american-music
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The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. Joe Henderson
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Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself. Josh Homme
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We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. Ray Brown
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Those things are the results of what people see and hear that you do. But the human beings themselves are living on a multiple level. Ornette Coleman
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This was the first time I lived there for 3 months; I became a Canadian for 3 months so to speak. Now Vancouver is like my second home. Kerry King
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When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire. Sheryl Crow
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We go to do the Billboard Music Awards to be a presenter, and we walk on stage, and we get a standing ovation from the industry. Nikki Sixx
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We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them. Chico Hamilton
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We identified with Frank. We were of course influenced - when everybody hears Zappa, they're influenced by him, just like The Beatles. Alice Cooper
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You gotta remember, I'm 24 years old. Who knows if I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing? But yeah, I'd like to rock out some day! Norah Jones
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You gotta play for as many people as you can. It's, like, if someone wants to see you, and they, you know, can't, then that's lame. Tre Cool
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You have to remember, I didn't want this life. Robert Goulet
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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer? Paula Abdul
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
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Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
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Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard. Charlie Hunter
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The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
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There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
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There's no getting around the fact that Eddie is the man. As far as emotional and spiritual energy goes, he IS the leader of this band. Stone Gossard
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There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves. Mike Gordon
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There's no way I could look like this without them. Ruth Warrick
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The tour, as wild and as loud as it was in the first, would gain momentum as the years went by, because I would gain more confidence back. Garth Brooks
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I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it. Leif Garrett
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I stand back, sometimes, behind the rhythm section, so I don't physically look like the leader. I don't like that concept too much. Lee Konitz
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What was so upsetting was I didn't really know anything about diabetes except that Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs and later died from it. Della Reese
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What ultimately kept me sane was that so much of what was going on was insane. What I had done was the honest, the right and the correct thing to do. Anita Hill
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What Brian laid out was something that felt really uneasy and bordering on feeling like I was on a boat or something. So I went with that feeling. Danny Elfman
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We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that. Jeff Ament
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We were raised to be here now, and to be compassionate, and that's all we took from it, too. Neither of us became particularly groovy people. Kristin Hersh
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We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically. Ronnie Hawkins
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We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it. Herb Alpert
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What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place. Jewel
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That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! Harry Nilsson