Amos Lee Quotations

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

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

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

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.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

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.

You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

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

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

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.

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

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

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.

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

I live a pretty anonymous life.

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

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

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.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

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.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

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.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I like down-to-earth people.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.