Duncan Sheik Quotes
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.Duncan Sheik
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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.
Vaughn Monroe -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
LaToya London -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
Zoey Deutch -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I try to cope with everything through humor.
Gail Porter -
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold -
I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
Jack Black -
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
Lara Pulver -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
D'Angelo -
The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.
Maelle Gavet -
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
Francoise Sagan -
I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
Jeremy Lin -
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.
Duncan Sheik