Cameron Crowe Quotes
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
