Aaron Dontez Yates (Tech N9ne) Quotes
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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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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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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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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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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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
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Music does not excite until it is performed.
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Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
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When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.
