Alec Benjamin Quotes
I love social media and Tik Tok but also .. sometimes it kinda sucks that it’s the only way to promo music these days .. I’d rather spend my time making music than trying to make 15 second videos online ..
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
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I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
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When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
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We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.
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I love social media and Tik Tok but also .. sometimes it kinda sucks that it’s the only way to promo music these days .. I’d rather spend my time making music than trying to make 15 second videos online ..
