Ed O'Brien Quotes
With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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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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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
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I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
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However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.
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With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
