Donny Hathaway Quotes
When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his 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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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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The most important thing is that you like the music.
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I love my jokes.
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
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I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
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When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
