Jonathan Davis (JDevil) Quotes
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
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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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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
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You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.
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It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
