Amos Lee Quotes

• I like down-to-earth people.

  Amos Lee

  People, Earth, Down To Earth

  "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.

  47 Copy quote

• Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

  Amos Lee

  Powerful, Wicked, Wicked World

  Song: Soul Suckers, Album: Amos Lee, 2005

  14 Copy quote

• I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

  Amos Lee

  Girl, World

  Song: Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight, Album: Amos Lee, 2005

  10 Copy quote

• We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

  Amos Lee

  Rainbow, Needs, Feels

  Song: Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight, Album: Amos Lee

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Intellectual, Elements, Matter

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Running, Novelists, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Blow, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Song, Mean, Honest

  4 Copy quote

• You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

  Amos Lee

  Strong, Needs, Able

  "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Work, Nice, People

  5 Copy quote

• There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

  Amos Lee

  Media, Records, Interest

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

  Amos Lee

  Religious, Musical, Moments

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

  Amos Lee

  Songwriting

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

  Amos Lee

  Weather, Cold, Warm

  10 Copy quote

• I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

  Amos Lee

  Artist, Mass, Appeals

  5 Copy quote

• I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

  Amos Lee

  Song, People, Matter

  4 Copy quote

• I wasn't a very good teacher.

  Amos Lee

  Teacher, Good Teacher, Very Good

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

  Amos Lee

  Mind

  4 Copy quote

• I live a pretty anonymous life.

  Amos Lee

  4 Copy quote

• Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

  Amos Lee

  Important, Genre, Has Beens

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Soul, Want

  7 Copy quote

• I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

  Amos Lee

  Information, Too Much, Wikipedia

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

  Amos Lee

  Knows

  "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

  Amos Lee

  Zero, Needs, Theory

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Dog, Men, Albums

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Lucinda Williams

Ray LaMontagne

Priscilla Ahn

Patty Griffin

Alison Krauss

Willie Nelson

David Gray

Norah Jones