Duncan Sheik Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Beautiful Quotes #Healing Quotes #Sadness Quotes
“So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Song Quotes #Term Quotes
“Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Doe Quotes #Records Quotes #Woods Quotes
“I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Supportive Quotes #Records Quotes #Deals Quotes
“Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Couple Quotes #Artist Quotes #Workaholic Quotes
“A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Real Quotes #Play Quotes #Roots Quotes
“I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Buddhist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Practice Quotes
“My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Moon Quotes #Two Quotes #Records Quotes
“I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Imagination Quotes #Tough Quotes #Tough Life Quotes
“For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Second Chance Quotes #Records Quotes #Familiar Quotes
“I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Song Quotes #Tired Quotes #Years Quotes
“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Teenager Quotes #Track Quotes #Machines Quotes
“So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Creativity Quotes #Impact Quotes #Years Quotes
“And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Song Quotes #Trying Quotes #Records Quotes
“Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Records Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Moved Quotes
“I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record”
-- Duncan Sheik

#New York Quotes #Fans Quotes #Records Quotes
“I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes
“But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Too Much Quotes #Moments Quotes #Modern Quotes
“Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Buddhist Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Practice Quotes
“I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Mean Quotes #The End Of The Day Quotes #Records Quotes
“I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Want Quotes #Able Quotes #Get Away Quotes
“Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Shortage Quotes
“I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Buddhism Quotes #Trying Quotes #Explicit 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

#Important Quotes #Records Quotes #World Quotes
“I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Creativity Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes
“I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Home Quotes #Fax Quotes #Machines Quotes
“I privilege the music over the lyrics”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Privilege Quotes
“Happy music doesn't tend to move me much”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Moving Quotes
“My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guitar Quotes
“It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do”
-- Duncan Sheik

#Influence Quotes #Environment Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

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