Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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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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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
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I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
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Music is important for one's health.
