Brooke Fraser (Brooke Gabrielle Ligertwood) Quotes
I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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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 started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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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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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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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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My music is a luxury.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
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They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.
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[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don't have it here. If you're not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
