Mel Brooks Quotes

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mel Brooks

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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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• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
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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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
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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.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
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• I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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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.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  

  Beck
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• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
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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.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• Christmas is always a great time because I get to be around family and spend time with my brother, nieces, and nephews, so that's what I plan to do. It's great to disconnect from everything.

  

  Karen Civil
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  • Great
  • Family

• Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.

  

  Bipasha Basu

• You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

  

  Mason Cooley

• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Purpose
  • Honor
  • Recognize

• A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Music
  • Balance