Steve Reich Quotes
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
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Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
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The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
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I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.
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When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
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I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.
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In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
