Jeffrey Deitch Quotes
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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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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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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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'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
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I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
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Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
