Jonny Lang Quotes - Page 2

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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

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  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

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  Passion, Giving, Interesting

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• I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

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  Thinking, Favorites Things, Mystery

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• I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

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  Kids, Parent, Playing Music

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• I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.

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  Thinking, Albums, Ends

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• I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

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  Skills, Guy, Wish

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• Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

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  People, Type, Pops

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• And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

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  People, Age, Forget

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• I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

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  Home, Church, Pastor

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• Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

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  Realizing, Yeah, Touring

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• Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

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  People, Style, Done

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• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

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  Dad, Good Friend, Player

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• I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

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  Artist, Thinking, Musical

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

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  Artist, Listening, Different

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

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  Winning, Honor, Grammy

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

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  Artist, Guitar, Long

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

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  Mom, Country, Dad

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• My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

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  Parent, Records, Stuff

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• Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

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  Song, Writing, Enjoy

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• Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

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  Artist, Soul, Black

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• Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

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  Years, Two, Half

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• When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.

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  Sound, Moments, Beats

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• With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

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  Thinking, Style, Agendas

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• Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.

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  Jesus, Important, Want

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