A Quote by James Arthur
Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.
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I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.
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