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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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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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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Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
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I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
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I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.
