Laidback Luke (Lucas Cornelis van Scheppingen) Quotes
House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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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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I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Peace is its own reward.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
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It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.
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I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
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House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.
