JessB (Jess Bourke) Quotes
My dream is to be in a place where I can do shows internationally and have music be the only thing I'm doing.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
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I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
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I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
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It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is in Britain, too, because it has an informality and a fluidity that should really be celebrated.
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If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you
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My dream is to be in a place where I can do shows internationally and have music be the only thing I'm doing.
