Duncan Sheik Quotes
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I started playing music at a pretty young age.
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I actually am always a music first person.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
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I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
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But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
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Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.
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Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.
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The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
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I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
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My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
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I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
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I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.
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I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.
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I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
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I make the kind of music I like.
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.
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If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
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I privilege the music over the lyrics.
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Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.
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I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.