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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Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it.
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When it comes to exercise, it's really hard for me to have a weekly routine because my schedule changes daily. But I try to go jogging as much as possible - when I'm in L.A., I do it every day.
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I've been labeled all my life.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
