Varg Vikernes Quotes
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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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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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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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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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 don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.
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I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
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I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.
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Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
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Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.
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The day-to-day exhausted me!
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Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.
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To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.
