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Music Quotes
"Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase."
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"I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'"
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"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
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"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices."
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"Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg."
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"When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get."
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"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air."
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"I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising."
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"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
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"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum."
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"I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story."
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"I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere."
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"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
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"We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing."
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"Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of."
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"I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21."
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"My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?"
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"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."
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"The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it."
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"A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music."
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"Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away."
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