Janet Fitch Quotes
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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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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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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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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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.
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This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
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What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
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I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.
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It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
