Paul Oakenfold (Oakenfold) Quotes
Let their music skill speak for itself. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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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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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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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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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.
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I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
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There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.
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The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son
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Let their music skill speak for itself. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
