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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Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.
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My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.
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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.
