Quotes about american-music
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The scene itself in San Francisco is just bizarre and non-existent for young bands and places to play... it's just so scattered now. Les Claypool
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I've seen it happen when the first rock bands played in the 60s, and they played simple music, and got more complicated and complex as they moved on. Billy Sheehan
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I've smoked Camels for more years than I care to mention, but I haven't had a cigarette since '91. I haven't had a joint since '95. Merle Haggard
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I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities. Lee Konitz
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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long! Sheryl Crow
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened. Wanda Jackson
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It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
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It was the world of make believe that people really weren't living in, and they were living in terrible, terrible circumstances. Kitty Carlisle
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It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. Arto Lindsay
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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.
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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent. Ronnie Hawkins
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I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own. Steve Cropper
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I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. Jimmy Carl Black
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I've changed my drumming considerably. I've had to, in order to play this way, in order to have a fulfilment with regard to the overall sound. Chico Hamilton
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I've been performing on stage since I was six years old. Jewel
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I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is my chance to stand up for this genre. Trace Adkins
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I used to go to tons of foreign films. Jackie DeShannon
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I use dropped D quite often and open G and open E sometimes. And sometimes I make up things, like dropping the G string down a step. Lindsey Buckingham
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I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song. Ike Turner
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I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it? Joan Baez
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Things are going to change in this business. Look at how well Bright Eyes has done on Saddle Creek. No one's done anything like that before. Matthew Sweet
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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
american-musician came hear needed people somewhere
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.
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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.
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When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
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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.