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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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
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Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!
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I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
