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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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
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'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.
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When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
