Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson
American singer, guitarist, and frontman of The Black Crowes, the group known for hits like "Hard to Handle."
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth20 December 1966
CityMarietta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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was so creative, and it didn't talk down to children. It treated them with respect, and it helped to bring different styles of animation to a wider audience.
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We feel that we've offered the right solution. Our company has been in business since 1835, and we realize it's important how we deal with these issues.
What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.
believe
Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.
music
No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.
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I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
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I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.
Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.
music
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
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I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
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Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
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Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
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I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.