JessB (Jess Bourke) Quotes
You've got to cater to the audience and have some flexibility. I don't want to box myself in. I want to make music that I like, and I like a shitload of music.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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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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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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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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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
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We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.
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You've got to cater to the audience and have some flexibility. I don't want to box myself in. I want to make music that I like, and I like a shitload of music.
