Cameron Crowe Quotes
I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
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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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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
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Music is a great healer.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.
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I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
