Al Kooper Quotes
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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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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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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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 think music docs could turn off some people.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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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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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
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Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.
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I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.
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Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.
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I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
