Arthur Ashin (Autre Ne Veut) Quotes
I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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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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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.
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I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.
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There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.
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I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
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I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
