Nick Valensi Quotes
I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.
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I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.
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Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.
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I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.
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I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.
