Brooke Valentine (Kanesha Nichole Brookes) Quotes
Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.
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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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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.
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Music is my first love.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.
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Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.
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English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.
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I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
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I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.
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It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
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I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.
