Jonathan Davis (JDevil) Quotes
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I love rock women.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.
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Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.
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Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.
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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
