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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Since we can stream music online, it’s easier to hear music from around the world. It’s easier to stumble upon new music and artists.
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I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've proven I can get to the mountaintop.
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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
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The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
