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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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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When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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Every year, millions of vaccines get wasted due to inadequate storage facilities. India is a focus for us, as this is a very big challenge for the country as well as other countries across the globe.
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Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.
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All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.
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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.
