Sonny Sandoval Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.
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I believe in God and the power of prayer.
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The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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All we know how to do is write music and love God.
