Robert Trujillo Quotes
Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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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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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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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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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
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I've had a terrible career.
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Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.
