Mariah Carey Quotes
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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I like music a lot.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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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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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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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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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
