Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
