S. Janaki Quotes
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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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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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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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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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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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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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.
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I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.
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'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
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Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.
