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Music Quotes by St. Lucia

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A vacation soundtrack is how St. Lucia suggests people first hear their music. He remembers a mountain choir school that shaped his early years and a rock background that later turned into more experimental songs. He also says that world music creates feeling without needing a specific scene.

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The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.

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I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

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I like my music to transport people somewhere.

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One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your…

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I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting…

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I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be…

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I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with…

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I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first…

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Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

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What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

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World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

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I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very…

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Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today,…

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Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will…

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It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to…

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Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything…

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I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some…

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There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super…

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I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs…

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I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in…

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When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything…

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You can hear 'Human Nature' all over our song 'Elevate.' It's an amazing song. That hooky arpeggio in the beginning is great.…

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Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy…

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I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously…

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I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres,…

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"St. Lucia We Love" is actually a song produced by Stratosphere music (also St. Lucian). The CEO of Stratosphere music approached me…

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I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

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None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind…

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When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with…

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The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

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Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I…

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I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on…

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When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in…

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The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot,…

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The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or…

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When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or…

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I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent…

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A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness…

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When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a…

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When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains…

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it…

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed…

When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good…

I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it in rehearsal,…

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs…

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.