John Tavener Quotes
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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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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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new 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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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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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 gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.
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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
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I can have more of a normal life in Los Angeles, where I can be fairly anonymous.
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I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.
