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“Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.”

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There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

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[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

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It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

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Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

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I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and…

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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

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There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear…

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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk…

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I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear…

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Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I…

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Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something…

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“And the way I loved her was like nothing else. This, I decided, was the love all other loves were measured against. They say…

Katherine Center

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When I'm not doing readings, I just spend a lot of time alone and try to meditate. Going for walks in nature is also…

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“The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel.”

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One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being…

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I don't just sing the song, I also sing the background music and the guitar solo.

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First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became…

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“My eyes pop out when I catch a glimpse of how much leg she's showing. She's wearing her shortest mini skirt, the one that…

Janine Caldwell

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“They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a new plan…

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“He never really voice pure, raw outrage to me about Watergate or what it represented. The crimes and abuses were background music. Nixon was…

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“« I guess I tend to think that important events should be solemn, and very grand, with muted violins playing in the background. It´s…

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The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel,…

Herbert Marcuse

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“One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”

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