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I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.

Music Video Funny
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The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Dinner Music
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

Care Gift Music Bad
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Love Escape Important People
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

Bore Music Heart Long
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Music Script CD Movie
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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Dre Heros Music Industry
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

Between Big Big Difference Business
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Always Business First Gonna
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Rule Rollins Muscians Actor
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Collector Strange Sense Music
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Conversations Distractions Unwanted Gravitate
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The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community.

Big Sound Music Community
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When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Music Happy Lyrics Enjoy
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It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

Transparent Emotions Music Heavy
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Away Because Companions Different
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting Silence Thought Music
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Answer Ask Correction Disorder
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Able Business Changed Control
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Below Far Invisible Musician
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Approach Basis Build Music
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Neglect Pleasing Practice Sound
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Bringing Everyone Invested Look
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Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

Any Beautiful Beautiful Thing Before
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With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do for yourself.

Album Always Music Out
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It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

Cause Dress Everyone Everything
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Along Business Come Happened
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I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

I Think Magical Marriage Most
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Anything Background Blues Change
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Music Process Artist Singles
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

Listen Life Happening Journey
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Audience Connection Music Regain
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I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
Operate Highest Altitude Music
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

About Album Also Away
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Best Business Decision Ever
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

Nas
About Anything Be Happy Being
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I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.

Behind Every Focused Girl
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Always Exactly ExactlyTheSame Girl
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Acting Choose Chosen Fortunate
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