Marvin Minsky Quotes
Music... immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment?
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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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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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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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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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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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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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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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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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
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Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental-far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
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Music... immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment?
