Du Yun Quotes
I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
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I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
