Eyedea (Micheal David Larsen) Quotes
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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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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I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
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The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.
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Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.
