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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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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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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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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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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Music will save the world.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.
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Let us retrace our steps: I have deceived you:Nothing is here I could not frankly tell you:No hint of guilt, or faithlessness, or threat.Dreams-they are madness. Staring eyes-illusion.Let us return, hear music, and forget . . .
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A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.
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In general I’m not a big fan of hip hop, even though I worked with Kanye. I did the Kanye stuff not because I’m a fan, but because for me it’s interesting to make some new music in an old style.
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I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.
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We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
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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.
