Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
