Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
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I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.
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i think our desires to put in music that we like and want to do in our albums are stronger than being conscious of the public's eyes or ears. That's why we're learning bit by bit with each new album. Although our music charts rankings are quite low, rankings and money aren't important in music.
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My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.
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Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.
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I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.
