Jason Schwartzman Quotes
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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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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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I love to play music.
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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
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I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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I have never stopped playing music.
