Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) Quotes
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
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Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
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I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.
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We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.
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When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
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I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.
