Carl Zuckmayer Quotes
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell 'C'est la vie', say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
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I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
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PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
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But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
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I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
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I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
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Oh that music - how it goes through one
