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The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.
Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.
Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.
Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.
Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.
There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.
Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.
If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.
I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
In all the years together You've shared joy, and contentment too Long may it continue In the years ahead, for the both of you
Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.