Yolandi Visser Quotes
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
