Floor Jansen Quotes
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I feel like I'm really lucky.
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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.
