Mac DeMarco Quotes
The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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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 actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection.
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With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
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The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.
