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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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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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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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
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I am not a fascist. Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a Nazi.
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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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I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.
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Music is important for one's health.
