Coleman Randolph Hawkins (Hawk) Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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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 always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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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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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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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 never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
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I don’t know that liner note writing is a career, especially in this age of digital music, where the deluxe packages that marked the CD era have become ever more rare.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'
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Music should always be an adventure.
