David Torn Quotes
I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
David Torn
Quotes to Explore
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
Garrison Keillor
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Haley Reinhart
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
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I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
Hannah Mills
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
Victoria Justice
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
FKA twigs
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If people hate you, then you're probably doing something right
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.
H. W. L. Poonja
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I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.
Anohni
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Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
Daniel Barenboim
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This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
David Torn
