Amos Lee
I wasn't a very good teacher.Collection: Teacher
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.
You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.
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.
Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
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.
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.
Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
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.
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'm not a mass-appeal artist.
I live a pretty anonymous life.
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.
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.
I like down-to-earth people.
I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
I love vinyl, man.
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.
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.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.Collection: Powerful
I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.Collection: Girl
We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbowCollection: Rainbow
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.Collection: Intellectual
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Listening
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Hate