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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Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
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Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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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.
