Dave Attell Quotes
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson -
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.
Madi Diaz -
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
FKA twigs -
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
Sam Smith
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha -
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
Maika Monroe -
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes -
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
Kailash Kher -
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.
Mac DeMarco
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh -
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
Utada Hikaru -
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady Gaga -
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
Gavin DeGraw -
There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.
Garth Davis
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I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer -
Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
Bob Marley -
In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
Gary Sherman -
It was exciting for me, as I got to be one of the guys in 'Dishoom.'
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.
Stella Benson -
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
Dave Attell