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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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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Dimmu Borgir is always proud to advertise its member shifts. It’s a Norwegian thing. It’s a small community and good musicians are hard to find. For Dimmu, it’s a curse. I think there’s been 15 people in and out of the band. That’s the thing, I think. Dimmu Borgir is stronger and moving in the right direction with every new member.
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There are times when you have to fight for something you believe in, that you love.
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The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
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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.
