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American singer-songwriter, Birth: 20-6-1977 Amos Lee Quotes
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Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
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I like down-to-earth people.
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Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
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I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.
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I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.
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Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.
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I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
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If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.
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Quote Topics by Amos Lee: People Artist Needs Matter Knows Mean Songwriting Records Men Song Religious Looks Has Beens Media Real Rainbow Mind Novelists Folks Feels Very Good Country Different Dog World Mass Guy Work Theory Wicked
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I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
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I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
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I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
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As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.
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I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.
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People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.
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As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.
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Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
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We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow
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I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.
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I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
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You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
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There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
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The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
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I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
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28.
I wasn't a very good teacher.
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I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
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I live a pretty anonymous life.
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Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
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I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
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I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.
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34.
My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.
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