David Newman Quotes
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
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There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.
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Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.