"As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation."
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"I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time."
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"I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell."
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"I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter."
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"I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. I feel like as I grew older, I've been working with different musicians, people that have are constantly showing me different things."
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"I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills."
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""What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that."
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"I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician."
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"I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers."
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"If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder."
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"Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be."
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"[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing."
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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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"Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes."
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"Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people."
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"My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did in LA, meeting some great friends and musicians and landing a record deal. That's where the hard work began though."
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"Music and Wine are one."
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"For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him."
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"The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians."
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"Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy."
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