Quotes about american-music
american-musician great obscure preparing slowly stream thousand throughout universal
In the Netherlands, as throughout Europe, a thousand obscure and slender rills are slowly preparing the great stream of universal culture.
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In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth. John Fahey
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In the beginning when I started to write lyrics, I wanted to do something what I haven't done before. So, I threw away the synonym finder. Kerry King
american-musician doubt hit
If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud. Robert Merrill
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If you think about the history of Hip Hop we've had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers. Grandmaster Flash
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. Ted Nugent
american-musician anyone audience audiences knows
I get a lot out of a show when I know that I don't know anyone in the audience and don't think the audience knows much about the music. Will Oldham
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Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. Chris Rock
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Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good. Cab Calloway
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Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. Joe Henderson
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Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes. Chubby Checker
american-musician canadians cold leave time
Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.
american-musician drink example good water
But, how little or how much of a good thing does it take to be bad? For example, water is good to drink. But drink too much of it and you drown! Jerome Hines
american-musician came influence television
But I think television had more of a, of a, of an influence on my life, than the movies, because with television you came into somebody's home. Kitty Carlisle
american-musician onstage pick
But I don't use a pick onstage at all. Lindsey Buckingham
american-musician fill people
But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled. Charlie Hunter
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But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. Mose Allison
american-musician anxiety blah love none studio voice work worried
But I also love being in the studio because there's none of the anxiety of pre-show stuff, and worried is my voice going to work and blah blah blah. Rosanne Cash
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Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
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Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us! Don Ellis
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Because there's so many intangibles about art. It's so personal in terms of whether it is good or bad. Or you like it or you don't like it. Peabo Bryson
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do. Elliott Smith
american-musician jazz kinds varied
I don't think jazz should try to change. I think jazz is varied enough and there is so many different kinds of jazz. So jazz doesn't need to change. Sonny Rollins
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I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting. Les Claypool
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I didn't even apply. There was no warning. Max Roach
american-musician kept publishing writers
I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know. Ike Turner
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It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover. Deana Carter
american-musician classical sort
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
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That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world. Jeff Ament
american-musician following instead stay
That's pretty much what we try to do. Stay with that one instead of following the Jones, I just like to come up with my own stuff. Bootsy Collins
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That's part of the fun, I guess, is having people excited about seeing you and signing autographs and getting to meet fans and things like that. Gavin DeGraw
american-musician country good matter playing plays radio whether
That's the good thing about what we're doing playing bluegrass. It doesn't matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not. Ricky Skaggs
american-musician basic computer cut feeling originally tracks
The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer.