1.
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
Amos Lee
2.
I like down-to-earth people.
Amos Lee
3.
Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
Amos Lee
4.
I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.
Amos Lee
5.
I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.
Amos Lee
6.
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.
Amos Lee
7.
I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
Amos Lee
8.
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.
Amos Lee
9.
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.
Amos Lee
10.
I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
Amos Lee
11.
I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
Amos Lee
12.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Amos Lee
13.
I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
Amos Lee
14.
I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
Amos Lee
15.
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.
Amos Lee
16.
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.
Amos Lee
17.
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.
Amos Lee
18.
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.
Amos Lee
19.
Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
Amos Lee
20.
We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow
Amos Lee
21.
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.
Amos Lee
22.
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.
Amos Lee
23.
You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
Amos Lee
24.
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
Amos Lee
25.
The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
Amos Lee
26.
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
Amos Lee
27.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
Amos Lee
28.
I wasn't a very good teacher.
Amos Lee
29.
I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
Amos Lee
30.
I live a pretty anonymous life.
Amos Lee
31.
Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
Amos Lee
32.
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
Amos Lee
33.
I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.
Amos Lee
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.
Amos Lee