Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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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 see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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People love gentle larceny.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
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Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
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I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
