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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  • Kids
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• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • 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
  • Player

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

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Book
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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
  • Yourself
  • 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
  • Mother
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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
  • Life
  • Music

• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Where

• For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Realize

• My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • People
  • Music
  • Parents

• I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Battle

• We shield our children from hazardous products - liquid nicotine should be no exception.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Children

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• 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