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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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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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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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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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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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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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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An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.
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Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.
