Quotes about american-music
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If they are the best team in our division... then our division is up for grabs. Bob Hill
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What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff. Jimmy Chamberlin
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With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band. Bobby Hatfield
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When I play Make You Feel My Love and it gets one of the best ovations of the night, that makes me feel like we're loved for things we do. Garth Brooks
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When instinct kicks in now, he bolts into high gear and dashes invisible laps for a minute or two before dropping back to my pace. Joe Henderson
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Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better. Jeff Ament
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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
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Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. Roberta Flack
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Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation. Santiago Durango
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Our bond is our shared status as retired racers. Before joining my family, he had a brief professional career - on the greyhound track.
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People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music. Lee Konitz
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water. Carl Wilson
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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play. Donnie Iris
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Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.
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Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy. Juliana Hatfield
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Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people. Sheryl Crow
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That diatonic scale gives up pretty songs over and over and over and over again, and it's up to you to enjoy it, and I do. I enjoy the business. Billy Eckstine
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My style is not as defined as someone like Terry Lewis or Jimmy Jam, but when you listen to records I've made, there's a consistency about them. Jerry Harrison
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My only commitment to Geffen was a week's worth of press in New York, plus a week in Los Angeles,and that would end my involvement. Sammy Hagar
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My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me. Dennis Wilson
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My room says that I was about 3, but it seems to be getting younger and younger to the point where I was, like, a fetus when I was playing. Vanessa Carlton
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My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all. Gloria Estefan
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My mother is very strong. Aside from wanting her beauty and her heart, I really wanted her strength. And I've always thought I don't have it. Janet Jackson
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Many drummers who get into that style of playing and writing often end up being known for only their technique and not their feel. Matt Cameron
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Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted. Billy Higgins
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Later in the public schools of Philadelphia, where I was born, music was a very strong pervasive element, which struck me with great force. Tom Glazer
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Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks. Mike Gordon
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I was worried I was gonna trip and fall and hurt myself, so I changed to tennis shoes and they got a lot better grip, too good of a grip. Bo Bice
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I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.
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I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles. Steve Cropper
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I went from a champion... it became very hard in the beginning, because I gave up everything in the States, to take this chance. Luther Allison
american-musician knew time
I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker. John Fogerty
american-musician appetite
I will be back, at least with Appetite. Steven Adler