Quotes by Brittany Howard - Page 1

Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.
Brittany Howard / Musical Artist
Mercury
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Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.
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Cared
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An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.
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Band
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Important Part
Section
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Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.
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One Time
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I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.
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Dystopian
Collect
Huge Fan
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Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.
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Songwriting
Talking
Talking To Yourself
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I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.
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Homesick
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My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
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Brian
Chuck
Dave
Berry
Favorite
Guitar Players
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I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.
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Kids
People
Strange
Me People Strange
Expect
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Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.
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Bother
Glasses
Used
Accessory
Contacts
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I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.
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Grade
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The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.
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Tune
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Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
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Guitar Playing
Singers
Guitar Players
Staple
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When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.
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Music
Real
Song
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I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.
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Miserable
Reserved
Too Many People
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I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.
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Identity
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When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
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Cities
Yards
Gardens
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By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
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Good Things
Time Family Good
Be Happy
By The Time
Family Time Good
Right Things
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To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.
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Musician
Different Types
Types
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It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.
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Classical Music
Dynamics
Imaginative
Classical
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I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.
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Bored
Chill
Handful
Relax
Fish
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I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
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Abstract
Abstract Art
Classic
Impressed
Art People See
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I drink a ton of water a day and try to get as much sleep as possible. Sleep is the best way to restore your health. Never skip on sleep; it's crazy important.
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Health
Best Way
Drink
Skip
Sleep
Water
Possible
Restore
Ton
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I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.
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Cool Music Always
Finding
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I probably bring four dresses on the road and rotate those. I always wear something light when I go onstage because I move around a whole lot. It's a sweaty business.
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Onstage
Rotate
Sweaty
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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
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Heartbreak
Relive
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People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.
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Comparison
Rock And Roll
They Say
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Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'
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Barefoot
Forgotten
Ended
Onstage
Trip
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I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.
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Be Original
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Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.
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Etiquette
Me Feel Sometimes
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Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.
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Vacation
Drummer
Time Home Always
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We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.
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Alabama
Athens
No Idea
Quiet
Sleepy
Venues
Muscle
Little Town
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I wear a lot of black, and it's not because I'm depressed or anything. I like black jeans - they're pretty much the only colored jeans I wear. James Jeans have the most comfortable fabric. I'd say in general, I dress pretty comfortably.
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Fabric
Jeans
Colored
Comfortably
Depressed
James
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When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.
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Children
Party
Real
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I'm not really into EDM music; I really like when someone plays their instrument and stuff. But I saw Deadmau5 at a festival, and it was pretty tight, I have to admit. He's got the giant mouse head on and tubes coming out of the ceiling and giant mirror glass things.
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Tubes
Admit
Ceiling
Festival
Giant
Glass
Instrument
Mouse
Tight
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I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see it differently - I'll want to see my great-grandchildren and live forever. But right now, young Brittany is not setting things up for old Brittany. And young Brittany does not care.
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Brittany
Lifestyle
Setting
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When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn't used to singing so much. Now I've learned, when I'm singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn't know how to preserve it for the next show.
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Mess
Preserve
Weaker
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For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.
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Alabama
Arizona
Calendars
Debut
Purple
Scenery
Setting
Sun
Vermont
Drove
Falling
Leaves
Van
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One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
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Banging
Lying
Old Fashioned
Standing
Bucket
Favorite Things
Live Shows
Tom
Tom Waits
Waits
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I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
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Advantage
Guitar Player
Hendrix
Jimmy
Lessons
Rhythm
Love Great Together
Elvis
Himself
Obviously
Page
Took
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
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Display
Repression
Bull
Tight
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We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.
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Broken
Strings
Bought
Sixth
Certain Way
Grade
Packet
Tune
Whoa
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For whatever reason, whenever I'm having a get-together, I'll turn on my projector and play YouTube videos of 'Russian driving fails.' Russians all have dashboard cameras in their cars, so there are all these videos of crazy wrecks and people almost getting hit in the street. It's a conversation starter, for sure.
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Cameras
Wrecks
Youtube
Russians
Fails
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I'm not that flashy in private; I'm usually pretty reserved. But on stage, it's about not being afraid of anything - of anyone judging you. It's one place you can be free. So why not sing as loud as you can, hoop and holler and jump around? A show is a moment. When it's done, it's over. I find that extremely liberating.
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Being Afraid
Flashy
Judging
Liberating
Loud
Reserved
Why Not
Hoop
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There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.
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Athens
Beats
Entertaining
Realizing
Drum
So Much Fun
Vocals
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You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
Brittany Howard / Musical Artist
Appreciate
Attention
Audience
Fun
Pay
Pay Attention
Stage
Anymore
Fact
Gets
Monkey
Motions
Psyched
Wants
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I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.
Brittany Howard / Musical Artist
Bleak
Existence
Smell
Time Music People
Barrel
Country Music
Time Music Country
Dark Time
Grill
Shift
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