Jean-Philip Grobler (St. Lucia) Quotes
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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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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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 like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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If it's music, I love it.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.
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It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.
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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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Images and music are very connected.
