Benjamin Britten Quotes
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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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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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
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In due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!
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If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.
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I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
