Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
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When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
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Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
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I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.
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Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
