Lana Del Rey Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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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 actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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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 just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
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Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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My music is a luxury.
