Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (Kenny G) Quotes
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
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The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about.
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In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
