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Joel Plaskett Biography

Musician

Joel Plaskett is a Canadian musician known for his unique musical style and talented performances. Born on April 18, 1975, he has been active in the music industry since the mid-1990s.

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“I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.”

Way Feels I Can Felt Voice Singing Stronger Aging Hearing Relaxed Getting Stronger Great Voice

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.”

People Thinking Might Jobs Young Teacher Like You Aspiration Good Job Really Like You

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.”

Book Use Language Written Written Word Fondness

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.”

Mind Spending Family And Friends Spending Time

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“When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.”

Thinking Trying Shows Feet Performances Studios Get Back Spontaneous Live Performance Be Spontaneous

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“I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.”

People Thinking Want Shows Hours Worst Couple Worthwhile Worst Things

Author:Joel Plaskett

“What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.”

Feelings Rooms Common Audience Share Stage Collectives Concerts Performers Uniting

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“I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.”

Canada Diminish Touring Being Cool

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“I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.”

Trying Wife Balance Easier My Family My Wife Get Away

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“If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.”

People Ifs Shows Bits Enjoy Hours Office Musician Eight Complaining Drivers Truck Gigs Truck Driver

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I have enough of a fan-base that I don't feel it is going to evaporate. I don't feel like I have a fleeting fan-base. I don't feel like it is coming from some trend-driven thing where I'm no longer going to be hip. I've come and gone through all that.”

Feels Enough Gone Fans Driven Hips Trends Fleeting

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“The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".”

Has Beens I Can Facts Waiting Hours Challenges Audience Stage Strange Corporate Not Sure Drag Occasional Gigs Sympathetic Venues

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“I've had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don't have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.”

Want Enough Dream Support Audience Corners Get Up Unlimited Wildest Dreams

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.”

Men I Can Real Feelings Remember Young Ability Boys Connections Young Man Old Days Playing Music Real Connection

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.”

People Writing Mean Care Song Memories Records Involved Activity Bigger Dear I Care Writing Songs

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.”

People Trying Different Done Whole Spirit Opportunity Process Fronts Computer Good Times Capture Editing Different Peoples Having A Good Time Arizona

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“That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.”

Memories Records Huge

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“Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.”

Thinking Art Levels Music Is Art Is Great Art

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“I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.”

People Way Stars Sound Community Cities New Orleans Memphis

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“When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.”

Thinking Song Sleep Wake Up Going To Sleep

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“My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.”

Influence Dad Guitar My Dad Folks British Genre Guitar Playing

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“There's a reason that I love this town.”

Reason Towns

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“The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how”

Growing Up Growing Never Quit

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“We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.”

Needs Stills Beautiful Standing Standing There Beautiful Lady

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About the Author

Born: April 18, 1975
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 24

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