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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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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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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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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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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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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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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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.
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Musicians are hungry for new music.
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I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'
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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.
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I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.
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Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.
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I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
