Andrew Wyatt Quotes
I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
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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 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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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I like music a lot.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
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When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
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You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
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Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
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I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
