Nick Valensi Quotes
Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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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've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
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Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
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My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
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I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.
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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
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I think it getting a gun should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.
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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
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Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
