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All I do is play music and golf -- which one do you want me to give up? (Tom Kiana)
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. (Tom Kiana)
[Those flamboyant stars, though, could end up being just a blip in a busy night. The three-hour show, Mr. Benson said, is going to be heavy on performances (23) and light on awards (9), with an emphasis on showing country music's influence on other genres and on New York artists. Mr. Benson said he was particularly looking forward to a pairing of Willie Nelson and Paul Simon; before they present the song-of-the-year award, Mr. Simon will sing Mr. Nelson's] Crazy, ... Still Crazy After All These Years. (Tom Kiana)
He's got to be there. He belongs there as much as anybody else. He's done as much as any of us to progress country music and let it be heard around the world and give it the respect it deserves. (Tom Kiana)
I loved her dearly and will miss her. And I'm glad that the music came out while she could still enjoy it. (Tom Kiana)
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. (Tom Kiana)
You all know I can play the guitar, you all know I can sing, but what you all forgot is these are all the beats that I come from. (Tom Kiana)
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work. (Tom Kiana)
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school-I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. (Tom Kiana)
Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal. (Tom Kiana)
I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pieces outside the studio. They never saw my face or what I looked like. (Tom Kiana)
I'm going to do an all-guitar album because I've been playing since I was 13. My Caribbean style mixed with my rock style. I want to do a musicians' album-just the guitar talking with different melodies. (Tom Kiana)
I had to make this album. It was my therapy after losing my dad. If I didn't have music, I'd probably be strung-out somewhere. (Tom Kiana)
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. (Tom Kiana)
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic. (Tom Kiana)
I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes. (Tom Kiana)
We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world. (Tom Kiana)
I picked up that whole vibe, and I'm moving toward the future with it: the vibe of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, that type of thing. Because I'm a musician. I think that my duty is to put out music. (Tom Kiana)
The way that we're moving forward toward music, it's all about using music together. We have hip-hop, we have rock, (but) all the kids now, we all listen to the same thing. If you're listening to rock, you're listening to rap. (Tom Kiana)
We're living in the modern age now. I call it the Year of the Matrix. Back in the day, you had these mixed-tape circuits where if you wanted to get (unreleased) music to your fans, you could go through DJs. Now all our fans have to do is go to their phones, and they'll be the first ones to hear something. And we're not talking about a ring tone here. We're talking about downloading a whole song, or a video. (Tom Kiana)
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. (Tom Kiana)
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