Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Quotes to Explore
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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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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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
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I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.
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I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
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My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.
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All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
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You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
