Parov Stelar (Marcus Füreder) Quotes
If you sample pop it’s not just about that one keystroke of a synthesizer – that I can do myself. You also want to sample things that are catchy such as vocal lines anyone can identify.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.
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I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."
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You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.
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I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
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It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.
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If you sample pop it’s not just about that one keystroke of a synthesizer – that I can do myself. You also want to sample things that are catchy such as vocal lines anyone can identify.
