Nicolas Jaar Quotes

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

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• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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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'.

  

  Yuna
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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Feel
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• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
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• Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Small
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• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
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  • Culture

• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
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• I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Country

• As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
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  • Step

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
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• I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
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• You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Mind
  • You

• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Where

• I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Taken
  • Picture
  • Hit

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Man
  • Question
  • Human

• People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Cool

• When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Player

• All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Positive
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction

• I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

  

  Nicolas Jaar
  • Music
  • Explaining
  • Electronic