Sxip Shirey quotes
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“Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.”
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“The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.”
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“The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.”
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“I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.”
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“I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.”
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“I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.”
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“In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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