Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.
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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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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.
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People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
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Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.
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There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.
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You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
