Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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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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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
