Paco de Lucía (Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gomes) Quotes
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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I have a lot of different sides. Sometimes I am shy, sometimes I get angry and sometimes I’m confident. But I think my confident side comes through the most when I’m writing songs.
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I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.
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I didn't study music. I literally lived it.
