Jaron Lanier Quotes
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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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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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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I like music a lot.
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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 think music docs could turn off some people.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I do get free stuff.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.
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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
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An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
