Lodewijk Fluttert (Bakermat) Quotes
I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.
 
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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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	But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.   
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	Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.   
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	Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.   
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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 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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	For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.   
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	When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.   
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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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	There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'   
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	The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!   
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	I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.   
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	America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.   
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	That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.   
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	If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.   
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	I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					