Boyd Norton Quotes
There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.
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Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
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There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
