Mac DeMarco Quotes
Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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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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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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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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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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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.
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Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
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You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?
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We are God's productions, His compositions.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.
