Martin Garrix (Martijn Gerard Garritsen) Quotes

I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Impact

• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
  • Ghost

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Music
  • Book
  • Stars

• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• 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
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Service
  • Enough

• I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Country
  • Away

• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • West
  • Vladimir Putin
  • US values

• Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

  

  James A. Baldwin

• I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

  

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