Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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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 was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.
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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
