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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how small the game. I want to win.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just a guy that watches sports all day.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
- Furthest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.
- Foolproof
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020