Avey Tare Quotes

#1. It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

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#2. Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

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#3. I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

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#4. I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

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#5. An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

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#6. We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

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#7. Okay, you've got to do something very difficult. Don't focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow the process and not the prize. The

Ryan Holiday

#8. Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

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#9. I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

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#10. Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

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#11. I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

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#12. Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.

Elif Shafak

#13. I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

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#14. Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

Kathryn Minshew

#15. I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

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#16. The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.

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#17. How could I explain to this man how much I wanted to work? Did he have the slightest idea how much I missed my old job? ... I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb
a constant, reflexive thing.

Jojo Moyes

#18. There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

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#19. You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

Augusten Burroughs

#20. I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.

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#21. Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

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