Brother Ali (Ali Douglas Newman) Quotes
The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.
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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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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
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I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
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For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
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My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.
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Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
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I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
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The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
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The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
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I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.
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The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.
