Sanjay Dutt Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
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I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
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I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.
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If one door is closed, break a window anyway.
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It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
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The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
