Dave Gahan Quotes
The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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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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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
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Actors actually have a feeling, like a sixth sense. They are like mediums. But it only works - you can only become this medium or this vessel to transport emotions and images and feelings - if you are not too full of yourself. Otherwise, there wouldn't be space for a story to live inside of you or a world to evolve in you and around you.
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Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.
