- Sing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Kitsch
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kitsch is very important to me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and sort of lost at sea - not really knowing what you're doing but reaching for the stars.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, 'Garden of Delete' is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces music. I don't have a theoretical language for music. I have this abstract dream language.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020