Mike Levy (Gesaffelstein) Quotes
He is the most important thing in my music. If The Hacker didn’t exist I’m not sure if I’d be here today. He explained a lot of things to me; it all came from him… I had been obsessed with his sound, because for me his music is the perfect combination of the past and the future. It was the only music I understood because everything he made was so logical for me.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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What is important is to win.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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My music is a luxury.
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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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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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Music will save the world.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
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Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.
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We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.
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Why is football important? Good question. Like Will Rogers said, all of us can't be heroes, somebody's gotta sit on the curb and clap when they ride by. I think that's what it is. People want to pull for something, whether it's America and you want to fly your flag ... why are NASCAR fans so adamant? Why do they pull for Jeff Gordon or Little E? People want to have something to pull for. You become part of a brotherhood. If you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, you seek out other Dallas Cowboy fans.
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.
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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
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He is the most important thing in my music. If The Hacker didn’t exist I’m not sure if I’d be here today. He explained a lot of things to me; it all came from him… I had been obsessed with his sound, because for me his music is the perfect combination of the past and the future. It was the only music I understood because everything he made was so logical for me.
