Laurent Brancowitz Quotes

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

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• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

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• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

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• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

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• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

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• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

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• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

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• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

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• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

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• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

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• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

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• Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

  

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• It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

  

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• When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
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