Lana Del Rey Quotes
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
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A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
