Sampha Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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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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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
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There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
