Penelope Spheeris Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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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.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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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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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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I like music a lot.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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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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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
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Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.
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I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
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Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
