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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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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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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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
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Music is pretty much all I do.
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The story of everyday people rising up to fight against evil to protect their families - it's a story that we've seen play out throughout history and across the world today.
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I really want to speak for young women, especially because I feel like we're constantly brainwashed in everyday life.
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So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.
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'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.
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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.
