David Gray
David Gray
David Grayis an English singer-songwriter. Gray released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, the latter two of which also made the Top 17 in the US. White Ladder became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK. Gray has been nominated for four Brit Awards – twice for Best British Male...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 June 1968
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And the film, This Year's Love (which Gray scored), supplied some of the money for it. Things just happened just when we needed them.
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The Canadian industry is meeting now to try to figure out how to respond positively and with one voice.
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When you play against someone that fast you gotta give them their space. They're gonna be coming after you, so you've just got to make sure you give yourself enough time to close down any space with them and not give them a head start, cause that's where you'll get caught.
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She was kind of a timid dog and now she's very active. (She) talks to people and wants to greet people.
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It's not my song any more. It's very much the audience's song, so if I'm feeling generous I'll wheel it out one night.
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It's often a fine line what increase you can pass along because if you go up too much, we'll lose the job.
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That record companies are crap, insane, huge and messy non-decision making entanglements is just a fact. That's not the reason why things don't work. You've got to make the right record.
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We're focusing more on the botanicals as opposed to more the fruit-driven infusions.
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That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.
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In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.
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You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.
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In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
emotion
I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.