Avery Sunshine (Denise Nicole White) Quotes
Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
Quotes to Explore
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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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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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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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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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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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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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
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I want to have a movement with my music.
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
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Essence's job was to keep Duffy quiet. When Duffy scored it was against somebody else.
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I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
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Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.
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There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
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Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
