Quotes by Sam Amidon - Page 1

I am a complete jazz nerd.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Jazz
Nerd
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Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Book
Reading
Years
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If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
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Picks
Play
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Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Guitar
Limitation
Tuning
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I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Book
Powerful
Pretentious
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When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Interest
Song
Tradition
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I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Lines
Singers
Singing
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I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Listening
Records
Want
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I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Fire
Song
Taken
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There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Guitar
People
Thinking
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If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a listening perspective, there's just something in their playing that I'm inspired by.
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People
Perspective
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The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.
Sam Amidon / Musical Artist
Kids
Boys
Lovely Voice
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