Eef Barzelay Quotes
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.
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I'm known for mushy music.
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My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.
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Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
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I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.
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I had a dad you know.
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When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.
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Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.
