Joseph David-Jones Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
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When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unpleasant.
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Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.
