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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."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"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."
"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
Explore more quotes by Donal Henahan
"It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel."
"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists."
"The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose."
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