Malik Bendjelloul Quotes
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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.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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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 was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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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.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
