Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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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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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I definitely don't want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I get to do as well.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
