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.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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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.
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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.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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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.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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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.
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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.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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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.
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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.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
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I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms.
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Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
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If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that.
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I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
