Florence Welch Quotes
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell 'C'est la vie', say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
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For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
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I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it took away my ability to sing with a range because it paralyzed my vocal chords, so that was when I started playing. But I hear the music as if I were singing even when I am playing.
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Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
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There was absolutely no pressure from the family. It was my choice to pursue a career in music. I always wanted to do music, which has been close to heart. In fact, I was dead sure about it.
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The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
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A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
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You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'
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I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.
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I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
