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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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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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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I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I realized I was working more on the clarinet than the saxophone, and I started to feel more comfortable on it.
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My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'
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I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doing music in the way that I feel is the way I need to.
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It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.
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My new favourite smell is new baby smell. It makes me so happy. If someone could bottle that, I'd love to have it.
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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.
