Fred Durst Quotes
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
-
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
-
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
-
There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
-
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
-
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
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.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
-
For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
-
I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
-
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
-
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
-
My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.
-
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
-
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.
