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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With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
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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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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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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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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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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.
