Nuno Bettencourt Quotes
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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I'm not really a horror movie fan.
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.
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If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. But with our music, we try to teach the masses of fans that not everything is as it seems.
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Nothing can ever be wrong about music.
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I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.
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I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
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I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
