Brian May Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.
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If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
Gail Devers -
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
