Dave Koz Quotes
Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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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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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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I would have the musicians keep playing over and over again till the sound made sense. I worked overtime on that; I worked hours to get it right. If the sound didn't make any sense, then I wouldn't know what to do - I'd be lost! It's instinct that tells me. I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.
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No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.
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I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.
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There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'
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I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.
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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
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The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
