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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
Jazz
"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
Hate
"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
Work
"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
Culture
"I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly."
Deep
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
Sound
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
Music
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
Beauty
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