Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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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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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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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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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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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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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
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When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
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Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.
