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 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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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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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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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 love country music.
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It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
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And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
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You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
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We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.
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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.
