Cliff Martinez Quotes
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
Cliff Martinez
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
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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.
Ian Anderson
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
Yoshio Taniguchi
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
D'Angelo
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
Ted Deutch
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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.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.
Colm Wilkinson
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The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.
G. Campbell Morgan
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
Yasmine Al Masri
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If I feel you're funny, I want to work with you.
Danielle Schneider
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky
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I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
Cliff Martinez
