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Quotes by Musician
"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention."
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"I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."
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"I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that."
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"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
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"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
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"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."
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"It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song."
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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz."
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"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
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"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
Want,
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"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."
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"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend."
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"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
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"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."
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"Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good."
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"Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last."
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"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."
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"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability."
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"Safety's just danger, out of place."
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