Toni Braxton Quotes
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.
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My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.
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Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.
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I think people always want to hear that there are barriers that exist for us. But the more I started to realize artists that are kind of like me in my lane, like, if they were white or African-American, they often had trouble because it wasn't the quality of their music: they just didn't stick out.
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I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
