Jean-Philip Grobler (St. Lucia) Quotes
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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 think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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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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Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier.
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I always put my boxing first.
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Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it's more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.
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A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.
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[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
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Images and music are very connected.
