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 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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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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That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
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I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.
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To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
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I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
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I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.
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I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
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The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
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To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.
