Lucy Dacus Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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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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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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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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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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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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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.