Jonny Lang Quotes
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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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I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.
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During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
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It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.
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I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
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I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.
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I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.
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I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me.
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I love all kinds of different music.
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I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
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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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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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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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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
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Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.
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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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I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
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I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.
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When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
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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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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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I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.
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I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
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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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Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
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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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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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It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
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I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.
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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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