David Banner (Lavell William Crump) Quotes
Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see many rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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I discovered that my professional training, with its focus on understanding and insight, had largely ignored the relevance of the living, breathing body, the foundation of our selves.
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This world is not my home, I'm just a passing thro', My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; the angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world any more. 0 Lord, you know, I have no friend like you, if heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do; the angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world anymore.
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Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see many rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.
