Alexis Taylor Quotes
I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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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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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
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I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
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'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
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It's time to have a new administration so that we have a fresh energy policy and we don't have this problem.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.