Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes
I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.
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You cannot deny reality: that ISIS is systematically attempting to exterminate Christianity, to exterminate the Yazidi community, to exterminate other religious minorities in vast areas in Iraq and Syria.
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On Jimmy Carter 'Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.'
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I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
