Vanessa Amorosi Quotes
I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
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I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
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I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
