Labrinth Quotes
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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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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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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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 don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
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I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
