John Varvatos Quotes
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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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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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
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Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.
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I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.
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One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
