Britt Daniel Quotes

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  

  Garrett Fort
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• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
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• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
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• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
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• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

  

  David Axelrod
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• For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?'

  

  Anna Kendrick
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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Mediocrity is underrated.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

  

  Britt Daniel
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