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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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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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"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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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."
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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."
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"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."
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"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music."
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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
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"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
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