Emil Cioran Quotes
When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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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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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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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 to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Movies are too literal.
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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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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
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If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.
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Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.
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Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
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When people live on our territory and are not criminals, they do not dispute our laws or our ways of living, our customs, our values. I see no reason why we should not continue to welcome them in the French style.
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When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.
