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I love vinyl, man.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Vinyl
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I like down-to-earth people.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Down To Earth
Earth
People
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I wasn't a very good teacher.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Teacher
Good Teacher
Very Good
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Appeals
Artist
Mass
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I live a pretty anonymous life.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Pretty
Anonymous
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I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
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I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Cold
Cold Weather
Warm
Weather
Like
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I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Celebrities
Hang
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Folk Music
Folks
Mean
Folk
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I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
World
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Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Powerful
Wicked
Wicked World
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We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Feels
Needs
Rainbow
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Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Genre
Has Beens
Important
Me Important Never
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I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Knows
Real
Songwriting
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You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Needs
Strong
Create
Strong Sense
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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Zero
Knows
Needs
Theory
Music Know Anything
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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriting
Directly
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The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Closest
Moments
Musical
Religious
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There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Interest
Media
Records
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I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Influenced
Relationships
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I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Flattered
Honored
Matter
People
Song
Music Always People
Cover
Music People Always
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I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Information
Too Much
Wikipedia
Apart
Page
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I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
People
Relate
Soul
Want
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Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Uncles
Aunt
Father
Mother
Love Mother Always
Aunts
Board
Love Father Me
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Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Country
Radio
Support
Advantages
Artists
Rabid
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Discovering
Honest
Mean
Song
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Chance
Effort
Love Effort People
Naturally
Anymore
Love Chance People
Happen
Sit
Unless
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Elements
Intellectual
Matter
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Listening
Records
Sides
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Approach
Elements
Intellectual
Yeah
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Surprised
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Blow
Deeper
People
Thinking
Understanding
Time People Understanding
Creates
Disagreements
Misunderstandings
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Artist
People
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Different Things
Cool Thing
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Albums
Dog
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Work
Focused
Musician
Nice
People
Dig
Working Hard
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Farmers
Involved
Understanding
Love Good Food
Bolster
Connection
Economies
Local
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Guy
Hate
Knowing
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Careers
Ideals
Looks
Life Man Look
Measure
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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.
Amos Lee / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Different
Novelists
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