Madi Diaz Quotes

#1. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

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#2. I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

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#3. Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

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#4. I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.

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#5. When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

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#6. My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

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#7. I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

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#8. One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

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#9. Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling.

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#10. I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

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#11. I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

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#12. I use Shazam all the time.

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#13. Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

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#14. Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

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#15. When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

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#16. My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.

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#17. Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

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#18. I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily.

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#19. There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

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#20. Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

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#21. I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.

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#22. When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.

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#23. I know that truly nothing is for sure.

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#24. Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

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#25. "There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.

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#26. I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

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