"I think there is an audience for Soul and Blues music today because people are starved for music that's real and music that is played by real musicians. Most music today has the same cookie cutter formula with the same beats and a lot of that stuff sounds the same."
Scott Ward: The Knight of Muscle Shoals
Alabama based musician Scott Ward…
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"My choice is to make it happy & kind with a one day atta time attitude. There is no guarantee of tomorrow ... I don't believe we are in charge here ... LOVE is the key to life now and later. LOVE Is the only thing that lasts beyond death, LOVE is the only thing you can take with you from this world to the next."
Barbara Blue: From The Shoals With Love…
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"In a perfect world, it would be more equitable, but that’s a pipe dream. Like all things in the entertainment world, it’s a “pyramid”; the few at the top make all of the money, and those at the bottom make crumbs. I realize that the ones at the top are generating most of the money, and therefore reap the most benefits. I am grateful for the living I am able to sustain, whether from music, or any of the numerous odd jobs that I’ve…
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"Music is medicine for the soul. It has a healing quality and has the power to make people feel better. It can also help people express, amplify or uncover feelings they might not be able to feel otherwise. Music is a universal language that can go places where mankind sometimes struggles to go."
Andreas Werner: Sweet Home Alabama
Crazy Chester…
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"Music to me should be soothing, have positive effects on ones thoughts and not involve aggressive lyrics. Cultures change and so does music."
Bob Wray: Walk On Muscle Shoals Line
Bob Wray…
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"I miss better radio. It used to be that you could actually discover good music on the radio. Now it’s all the same bubblegum. And there’s not much blood and sweat in music these days."
Bill Hinds: The Sweet Sound of Alabama…
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"Music itself sees no color and it sees no ethnicities – it can however be used as a bridge to create ideas, questions, and to get conversations started."
Joe Breckenridge: Sweet Soul Alabama…
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"I firmly believe music heals and connects people in all the right ways. So when racial and social-cultural things come along and immediately separates folks and lines get drawn, I think music is a powerful tool to get past those things and brings everybody back together."
Mitch Mann: Sweet…
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"The Blues to me offers more than just the emotions that most music brings, it also offers what seems like a conversation between instruments, it reveals emotions that we didn’t know existed."
Marianthe Boyagis Snyder: Art Therapy…
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"Blues to me is a good man or woman feeling bad over a romance, money or anything that bears heavily on the mind."
Travis Wammack: From The…
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"Music is a gift from God and it lifts the spirit- that one thing that keeps us all sane in a word of insanity."
Scott Ward Band: Muscle Shoals Down Through Decatur
The Scott Ward Band was…
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"I hope that the public at large will begin to gravitate back towards more organic, rootsy artists and bands that can actually reproduce the sounds on their records in a live setting."
Scott Boyer, Jr.: Muscle Shoals Legacy…
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"My hopes and fears are that music will continue to be something that people to work for and not something that just happens when you think of it. I believe that striving to accomplish good music creates better people."
Scott Boyer: Reach For The…
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"I would love for the music industry to go back to the days where the writers get just as much credit as the singer."
Hannah Aldridge: Dark Country, Bright Songs
Hannah…
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"Music reflects that process. Music is Inspiration itself. It is The Universal Life Force Energy expressing Itself as Music through me."
Rev. Yolanda: Divine Creative Impulse
Rev. Yolanda aka Roger…
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"The music that the blues and the country are aboriginality. Therefore we have the scene which I cannot understand, but think that a blues-rock is world music. I believe it with world common language."
Kunio Kishida: Rising Sun's Axeman…
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"It was the foundation from which a lot of the music was derived. Without the rich Southern history there wouldn’t be the same music."
Ann Sandlin: A Never-Ending Groove
Anathalee G. Sandlin…
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"The best blues to me always came from older black men who lived either in the countryside of the South, or in the Chicago blues clubs."
Bruce Brookshire: Southern Mission
Bruce Brookshire and…
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"I believe American Blues is at the heart of all good Rock and Roll music, and I don’t think that’s very difficult to trace."
Marvin Taylor: Simplicity & Honesty
Marvin Taylor born in Tuskegee, Alabama, is a…
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"I really don't have any fears about music's future, it has existed longer than mankind's other languages. It will continue to exist as long as there are people to make it."
Dick Cooper: Sweet Home Alabama…
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