Yigal Azrouël Quotes
I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
