Brian Reitzell Quotes
My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.
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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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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for 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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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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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 can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Who are my influences? Everybody.
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The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles.
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.
