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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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 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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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.
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I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
