Lars von Trier Quotes
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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 studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
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There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
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Never ask a bore a question.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
