Paul Oakenfold (Oakenfold) Quotes
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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I love dancing.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
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the 1960's began with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.
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The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.
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You should listen to a lot of different music.
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You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.
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My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.
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There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
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When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
