Maxine Peake Quotes
The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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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 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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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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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'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn't really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.
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I love when people on Twitter give advice.
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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
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Nobody is all good or all bad.
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The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.
