Kanye West Quotes

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
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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.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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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.

  

  K. Flay
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• I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

  

  Maluma
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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
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• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

  

  Oliver Sacks
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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
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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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
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• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.

  

  Bonnie Langford
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• So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

  

  Andrew Greeley
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• People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
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• I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

  

  Kanye West
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