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 can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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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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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
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I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
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I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.
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In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
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I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.
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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.
