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Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.
People don't have fun making music all the time.
Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
Music is about textures as well as melody.
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
The most important thing is that you like the music.
If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.
We had been playing with three players in the back and loading the midfield, but this year, with the talent we have, we can play with four in the back and it works out to basically give us an extra forward because the defense shifts in reaction to the overload,
Obviously, I believe in the future of the product. As everyone in the business will tell you, the business is cyclical. It has its ups and downs, and I don't think it's as bad as it was in the '80s. You can't complain that it's down now, because business is still good.
I have had some people tell me that composing music is easy, and that anyone can do it. Yes, anyone can do it, but few can really do it.
Kelly has a tough job backing up a player like Matt, but I am glad I could get some of next years' players into the game. I think that will improve our team later in the season.
Matt is an All-State keeper and we know we can get that from him.
Well I'm happy with the win since it's in our division,
Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music.
Purcell is really fast and real technical and he can put a lot of defenders down with his quick touches.
It's a very wonderful thing to be honored here today. I thought I did a good deed.
In past years we as a team had a tendency to play down to our opponent at times and that wasn't the case here today.
(The lifting of the restriction) will be a big help for us because we go through a lot of water.