Duncan Sheik Quotes

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

Duncan Sheik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

YouImportantCreationWantCraft

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.

Jerry Leiber

WorkDogMusicCityWritingEnergy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

GrowthFreedomEnemyConformity

I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.

Matthew Williamson

PeopleHorseBuildingsStopHavana

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

Jeff Giles

WeirdStuffScottUnsettlingWrites

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

Michael Buble

LoveMusicPeopleMeCrazyFavorite

Would you ask Picasso to explain 'Guernica?' Would you ask Nabokov to explain 'Lolita?' Would you ask Tolstoy about 'War and Peace?' No, you wouldn't dare.

Michael Cimino

PeaceWarYouDareAskExplain

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

John Podhoretz

SongLostMustAvoidSiren

As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

Robin DiAngelo

PeopleMeaningWhiteOppressionCome

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Ruth Bernhard

LifeMeWayMoreEverythingPursue

It's tough being at Chelsea. I work hard every day in training. It's a massive club with really good players, so you don't get the opportunity every weekend.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

WorkGoodOpportunityDayTraining

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Moby

LoveMusicWorldAlwaysGetDoes

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Boris Johnson

LifeThinkMy LifeAchievingNever

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Duncan Sheik