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Music Quotes


"When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts."


"I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody."


"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."


"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs."


"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."


"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."



"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad."



"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."


"I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one."


"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."


"With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would."


"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."


"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."


"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."


"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."


"Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music."


"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."


"We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down."


"But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan."
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