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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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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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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Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.
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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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You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
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My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.
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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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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.
