Jay Duplass Quotes
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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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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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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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 like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?'
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.
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Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
