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The more you say no the more people ask.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Asks
People
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In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.
Thomas Mars / Musician
California
Tension
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I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Lazy
Filler
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I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Eccentric
Facts
Thinking
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I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Artist
Deadline
Stupid
Thinking
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In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Forget
People
World
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There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Different Kinds
Inspire
Overwhelm
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It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Cheesy
Personal Stuff
Revealing
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Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Growing Up
Security
Versailles
Almost
Museum
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I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Fantasy
Song
Vision
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The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
Thomas Mars / Musician
America
Europe
Laughing
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The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Please
Versailles
People Growing Up Up
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When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Overwhelming
English
French
First Thing
The First Thing
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In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Apples
Association
Song
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In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Children
France
Tv Shows
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One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Creating
Singers
Talking
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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
Thomas Mars / Musician
New Stuff
Evolving
Foundations
Solid
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Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Bridges
Inspiration
Overwhelming
Burn
Urge
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Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Agriculture
Fields
Overused
Saxophone
Time Good Start
Burn
Scratch
Such A Thing
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When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Band
Miserable
Verge
Time Work Always
Totally
Airport
Connect
Crying
Phase
Whenever
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There was never a choice to sing in English or French, that's the thing. We started a band and sang right away in English. You reproduce the thing you like, and most of the bands we liked were coming from England or the U.S. We also came to cherish the fact that there was no one in France singing in English -we were so happy Phoenix to be the first. Even if we are traitors to France, our country, which I'll never understand, because we talk about things that are very French.
Thomas Mars / Musician
Choices
Country
Singing
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