I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealized version of you.
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
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I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.
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