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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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.
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Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
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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.
