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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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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I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.
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We only work the most I ever work is three days a week. Very rare that I will work four. If I'm involved in a scenario where they need me to be in it, I don't mind. They always work around my childrens schedule, their sports, and stuff like that. Thats been very important to me.
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I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.
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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.
