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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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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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.
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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.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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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.
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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?
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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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'.
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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.
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I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
