Eric Jayk Quotes
It’s so awesome to think that people all over the world are listening to your music. People are just getting into Wildstreet, and they find that we’ve been a band for 13 years. It’s just really cool.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.
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I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.
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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
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It’s so awesome to think that people all over the world are listening to your music. People are just getting into Wildstreet, and they find that we’ve been a band for 13 years. It’s just really cool.
