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 was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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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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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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.
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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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All I wanted to be was a player.
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I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.
