Nicolas Jaar Quotes
Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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My workout mantra is 'Break a sweat every day.' Even if it's just for 20 minutes. I'm very disciplined about that.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Music is to give, share.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.
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Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
