Dave Gahan Quotes
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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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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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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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.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
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I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
