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" I want people to know me for following my dreams. "
Luke James
Dreams
Me
People
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" I like to think of myself as a true artist. "
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" I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock - whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment. "
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Moment
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" Just be true all the way through, and people can't do anything but respect you for it. "
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" I'd love to jump in a spaceship and shoot myself to the moon, where I'll paint the word 'Love.' So when people step outside before they go to bed and look up to see it, they'll just dream of love. "
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" There's a plethora of genres that I've been introduced to, but that's only because of the foundation that was laid growing up in New Orleans. I know it's a cliche thing to say, but it's very gumbo-like. You get that here. You can mix well with all different walks of life. That's what New Orleans is. It's like no other place. "
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Place
Foundation
Growing Up
" I like to be funny and make a girl laugh. "
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Laugh
Girl
" New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco. "
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You
New
Man
" If you really want change, no one else is going to make that for you. It's all mental at first. Once you overcome that mental part, your body can do anything. "
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Want
Overcome
Going
" I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn't really date the dude with the saxophone. "
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Saxophone
Started
Singing
" I love acting. It's way different from singing, but I like really put my ten thousand hours in to be really good. I want to be a premier actor. I want Oscars, I want recognition, and I want to move people just as much as I move people with my music, the same with my acting. "
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Love
Music
People
" You have to stand on your beliefs. "
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Stand
You
Your
" It's very tough to be away from someone you love or you're used to seeing all the time. But if you're truly in love, it will work. But it is difficult. "
Luke James
Love
You
Work
" As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself. "
Luke James
Yourself
Child
Stand
" Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me. "
Luke James
Time
Music
Me
" My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer. "
Luke James
Hunger
Drive
Think
" If you're truly serious about your physique and health, in totality, I think you need to pull out all stops. You need to really just hone in on that warrior within. "
Luke James
Health
Serious
Think
" I like to have a great vibe wherever I am creating. I like to have movies playing on mute - just eye candy - maybe a friend in the room, maybe a lovely young lady, someone you can use as a muse, who can give you inspiration by her essence. "
Luke James
Movies
I Am
Great
" The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to. "
Luke James
Look
Forward
Artist
" When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever. "
Luke James
Think
Always
Admire
" I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans. "
Luke James
New
Music
Jazz
" I want to buy my mother a huge house in New Orleans so she can open up a bed and breakfast. "
Luke James
Breakfast
Bed
She
" New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of things. My mother didn't keep me away from other music. She only kept me away from rap. The closest I got to rap was D'Angelo. "
Luke James
Blues
She
Mother
" My idea is not to be big. I just want to be really lean and shredded as I possibly can get - a lot of cardio, light weight, and a lot of my own weight to build up my endurance. "
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Light
Want
Endurance
" There's only one Luke James, and I make damn sure that you know that. "
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Only
Make
" When I first got turned on to 'Purple Rain,' I was just moved by Prince's charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something. "
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Falling
Everything
Free
" I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy. "
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Me
Famous
Create
" Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had a bird chest, I was a singer. I've always been like this, and I've gotten better because I've progressed. "
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Girl
Man
Me
" From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else. "
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Sing
Me
Everyone
" 'Dancing in the Dark' is one track. Basically, the song is about connecting with someone mentally, and you're moved so much by the intellect that both of you want to make it physical. "
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Dark
You
Someone
" I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye. "
Luke James
I Was Raised
Mother
Knew