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We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

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Amos Lee
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 22
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Rainbow
Place
Need
Feel
Feels
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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.
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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.
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Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
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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.
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
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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.
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There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
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Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
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I wasn't a very good teacher.
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I live a pretty anonymous life.
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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.
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