Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
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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 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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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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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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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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And we danced;Out there on that empty hardwood floor.The chairs up and the lights turned way down lowThe music played, we held each other close.And we danced.Like no one else had ever danced before.I can't explain what happened on that floor.But the music played,We held each other close,And we danced.Yeah, we danced.
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The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
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The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
