Paul Twitchell Quotes
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
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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.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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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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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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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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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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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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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.
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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
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My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
