Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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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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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
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No Catholics in my family.
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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
