Vera Farmiga Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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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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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
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Music... is... a core element of our species, an activity that paved the way for more complex behaviors such as language, large-scale cooperative undertakings, and the passing down of important information from one generation to the next.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
