Neil Young Quotes
We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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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'.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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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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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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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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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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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
