Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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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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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.
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I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
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I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
