El DeBarge Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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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 really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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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 don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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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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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
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My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
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One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
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It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
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Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
