Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes
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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 love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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 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.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
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Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.
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Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
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One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.
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All music has to speak in some form or other.
