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With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

Jonny Lang

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Jonny Lang
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 29
Guitarist
Singer-Songwriter
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I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
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Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.
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Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.
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Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.
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It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
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I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me.
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Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.
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Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.
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I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.
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You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
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I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.
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Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.
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I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.
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I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.
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I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.
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Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
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Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
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I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.
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