Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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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 listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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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 just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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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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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
