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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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I always watch the work I do.
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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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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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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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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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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 always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.
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I believe I'll see the reunification of North and South Korea in my lifetime and that defectors should play a role in rebuilding the country. In the long run, I want to return to North Korea, because that's where I belong.
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
