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I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
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Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
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I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
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The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
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I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
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Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
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I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
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I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
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The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
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In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
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I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
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The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
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I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.
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The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
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We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
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There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
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If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
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I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
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