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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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 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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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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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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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'
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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
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As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.
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The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.
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Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.
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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.
