Ana Tijoux Quotes
I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
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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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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.
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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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Music will save the world.
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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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The existence of sexual energy is such an every-day part of life. It's such a natural aspect of life. That we end up relating to without any shame. (Much Music 1991).
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I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.
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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
