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 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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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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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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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
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I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
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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.
