Dan Hill
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We see so many people who are ... JUDY CORNETT You can make your own records and videos [inexpensively]. It means that artists sell on their merits... GUY GARVEY SHAKIRA Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that reall... JENNIFER DAMIANO Blender is smart, funny and remarkably entertaining. Now music fans and savvy Blender readers can ... ERIK FLANNIGAN I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. The... BIG SEAN [A lot of the artists collaborate with one another on stage throughout the festival, leaving fans an... SAM BUSH Comparisons of different artists are a good way to get people to see the artists in a new way. It's ... RICHARD ANDREWS It's a natural fit. These are not replacements for people buying individual songs or albums. But the... EDDIE CUE No, it would not be acceptable. Yes, we have veto power over certain songs in the set list. But we a... CHARLES COPLIN At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and ... AFROJACK There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you... PATRICK KANE I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, hav... CHARLES KELLEY A lot of the artists have developed relationships with family members of men and women they portraye... ANNETTE POLAN TAYLOR SWIFT It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the ... BILLY PRESTON CHRIS CORNELL Artists in Europe are really focusing on the Los Angeles art scene. For young people, Los Angeles lo... CATHERINE GRENIER [The new album is a compilation of his favorite covers and old hits, songs that have been] re-worked... BRUCE HORNSBY BEYONCE KNOWLES KAT GRAHAM To get all the country music artists in one place at one time [means] you also can get autographs an... RASCAL FLATTS To get all the country music artists in one place at one time (means) you also can get autographs an... RASCAL FLATTS What's exciting is the ability to reach a large audience with this music, and have people who may be... DAVID LEAF BEBE REXHA ACE FREHLEY ALEX EBERT JOHN MAYER SEAN COMBS I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthda... PUFF DADDY Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where perform... ZACK DE LA ROCHA It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ... CLINTON SPARKS LEXI THOMPSON Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea... STEPHEN MARLEY CHRISTINE MCVIE EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. DAVID ARCHULETA ACE FREHLEY There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Count... CHET ATKINS TORREY DEVITTO We'll have a group of artists in different locations outside the center, painting in different mediu... LYNNE SALISBURY ETTA JAMES ADELE Chuck D. ... deeply understands the profound impact Internet technology will have on bringing an art... AL TELLER BRENDON URIE STEPHEN CHBOSKY WIZ KHALIFA DANIEL EK It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People... RICK BAKER I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someon... CHARLES KELLEY Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you... GEORGE GROVE I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeac... NINA HAGEN GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artis... TROY CARTER I had a few fans here. I appreciate it too. Having fans is huge. It was a big pick-me-up for me and ... TOM KOHL STEVEN PINKER All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by diff... EDDIE FLOYD I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE JOHNNY CASH Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio... ALEXA RAY JOEL There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have arti... JASON ALDEAN TONI MORRISON We got a really good idea for how it felt to play the songs for fans ahead of time and we were able ... BRADD SHAPIRO [But fans need not worry. His next album will have 17 songs and the layers come thick and fast.] The... ERIC MATTHEWS Her work as a writer, spanning so many decades, and still getting things cut, is unparalleled. A lot... EDDIE STUBBS The Ozarks is absolutely full of good artists. There are so many good artists around. It's amazing h... GARY ROYSE LUKE BRYAN I am passionate about finding undiscovered and talented artists. I want to help those artists get to... MICHELLE PHAN RYAN TEDDER CANELO ALVAREZ Nickelodeon fans are my first fans, so I have much love and adoration for them. ALEXANDRA SHIPP Atlantic kept up their level of excitement. ... Artists like John Coltrane -- these are mythical art... LENNY KAYE Artists and their labels can no longer rely on exposure through radio and video to get their new mus... JOE DIMURO These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w... ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w... ALBERT HAMMOND JR I called him a few months later, and he credits me with convincing them to do this. I told him that ... MARK LAPIDOS JOSH TURNER It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young peo... BETTE PAGE BETTIE PAGE JERRY SALTZ There are so many talented artists in this town. I wanted to support them. MICHAEL YAZEL When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ
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I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a... DAN HILL When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ... DAN HILL I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do... DAN HILL When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen... DAN HILL Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ... DAN HILL The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w... DAN HILL My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them. DAN HILL One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ... DAN HILL I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy... DAN HILL When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra... DAN HILL With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi... DAN HILL I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab... DAN HILL In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we... DAN HILL Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan... DAN HILL When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s... DAN HILL Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i... DAN HILL Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time. DAN HILL Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou... DAN HILL If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit... DAN HILL At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i... DAN HILL To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by... DAN HILL I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change. DAN HILL It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was... DAN HILL The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies. DAN HILL In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there... DAN HILL Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal bo... DAN HILL How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all co... DAN HILL Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off ... DAN HILL To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered ... DAN HILL Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the box... DAN HILL While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Whi... DAN HILL I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better... DAN HILL Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes... DAN HILL It's hard being homeless, without your own territory. DAN HILL In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in... DAN HILL Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racial... DAN HILL Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in ... DAN HILL Justin did a nice job for his first varsity start. He struck out six, while walking only one. DAN HILL Troy pitched well when he was in there. DAN HILL After the first inning we let up. We've got be more aggressive to be competitive. DAN HILL He did really well today. Get used to that name, he'll be doing some great things. DAN HILL It was quite different then Saturday's game. We definitely hit today. DAN HILL If we can help people see that it's not just a race, that it's an opportunity to build life-long fri... DAN HILL The critical thing addressed here today is that there are a good number of people who do not have a ... DAN HILL This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow. DAN HILL I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song. DAN HILL You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write '... DAN HILL So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions. DAN HILL When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adole... DAN HILL I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country. DAN HILL My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. DAN HILL While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until ... DAN HILL My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first versi... DAN HILL Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversati... DAN HILL All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conv... DAN HILL In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b... DAN HILL I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve. DAN HILL You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed becaus... DAN HILL I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success. DAN HILL I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match ... DAN HILL Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the nex... DAN HILL My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-l... DAN HILL Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either... DAN HILL I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving ... DAN HILL That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with m... DAN HILL I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us thi... DAN HILL I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his... DAN HILL I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing help... DAN HILL You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber. DAN HILL I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible... DAN HILL NAPOLEON HILL NAPOLEON HILL NAPOLEON HILL 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the ... KACY HILL I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives m... KACY HILL I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get t... KACY HILL I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, ... KACY HILL I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Appa... KACY HILL I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that&#... KACY HILL I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16. KACY HILL I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one ... KACY HILL I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and every... 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I ran a lot of scout team my freshman and sophomore years, ... ALAN HILL It will leave boarded up premises on Castle Street - the main street - and create a ghost town. ALAN HILL I got to get stronger, ... I'm fast, but I'm not the biggest guy, so I have to be deceptively strong... ALAN HILL I think a lot of people are doubting (Milford) after we lost to Sussex Central. Hopefully, Friday wi... ALAN HILL I expect to play, ALAN HILL We'd obviously like it to have been better. But I don't think we hurt ourselves and that's kind of t... ALAN HILL The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w... DAMON HILL To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I ... DAMON HILL If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical o... DAMON HILL I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at... DAMON HILL If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car... DAMON HILL Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we co... DAMON HILL I am not allowing myself to get carried away. DAMON HILL I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of thi... DAMON HILL Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people ... DAMON HILL Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals ... DAMON HILL People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable... DAMON HILL I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it ... DAMON HILL I have always liked a challenge. DAMON HILL The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and... DAMON HILL I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. ... DAMON HILL If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pu... DAMON HILL There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that yo... DAMON HILL Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record strai... DAMON HILL The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s an... DAMON HILL You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under... DAMON HILL Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. 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And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so... 
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their s... 
Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful tha... 
I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs. 
Everybody said the same thing: 'Thanks but no thanks. Your songs just aren't hot enough for our arti... 
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... 
Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff. 
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artis... 
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... 
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I... 
It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark ... 
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the f... 
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by m... 
Tom and Brad and Tim were huge fans of Soundgarden before I ever met them. The (Soundgarden) songs w... 
When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You ha... 
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs ab... 
I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and... 
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record. 
There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered. 
I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to o... 
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthda... 
I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&a... 
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... 
And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their l... 
I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it&... 
I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diari... 
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tr... 
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th... 
To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing. 
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... 
I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff ... 
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun... 
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. 
[Asked about his songwriting achievements, he said he was] a big fan of the Golden Age of Country Mu... 
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white pe... 
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing... 
I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. ... 
There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both... 
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... 
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young peo... 
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a co... 
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up h... 
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set... 
A goal is a dream with a deadline. 
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to... 
My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation. 
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for lif... 
To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or... 
What position didn't I play last season? 
I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but... 
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week." 
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill. 
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde... 