Jonathan Davis (JDevil) Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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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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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
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It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
