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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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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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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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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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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I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.
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When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.
