John Baldacci Quotes
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
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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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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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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 grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.
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It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
