Duncan Sheik Quotes

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• I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

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  Beautiful, Healing, Sadness

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• 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

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  Creativity, People, Creative

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• I privilege the music over the lyrics

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  Privilege

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• I actually am always a music first person

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  Firsts, Persons, First Person

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• It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

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  Influence, Environment, Inevitable

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• But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

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  Too Much, Moments, Modern

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• I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

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  Supportive, Records, Deals

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• 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

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  Home, Fax Machines, Progression

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• I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

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  Life Is, Moments, Disaster

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• Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

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  Moving, Happy Music

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• Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

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  Kings, Kids, Lakes

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• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

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  Doe, Records, Woods

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• Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

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  Couple, Artist, Workaholic

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• I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

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  Buddhist, Thinking, Practice

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• My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

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  Moon, Two, Records

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• 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.

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  Important, Records, World

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• When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

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  Teenager, Track, Machines

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• Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

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  Buddhist, Inspiration, Practice

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• A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

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  Real, Play, Roots

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• So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

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  Song, Term, Knows

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• I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

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  Want, Able, Get Away

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• I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

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  Buddhism, Trying, Explicit

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• 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.

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  Song, Tired, Two

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• And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

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  Song, Trying, Records

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• If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

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  Play, Records, Made

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