E. O. Wilson Quotes
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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I'm trying to leave more of my calendar open for the spontaneous things. A lot of fun stuff that happened in previous years were things that were like, 'Hey are you available next week?' I wasn't really open unless it was planned months in advance. I'm excited to play it by ear and let a lot of stuff happen as it happens.
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The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.
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My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
