Quotes by Dave Sitek - Page 1

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Cedars
Gold
Platinum
Thinking
Cedar
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I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Kids
Age
Library
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I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Couple
Let It Go
Minutes
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I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Hardcore
Outfits
Scene
Shirts
Figured
Hawaiian
Stick
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If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Better Place
Moving
Possibility
Species
Thinking
Together
Together World Better
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There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Different
Heart
People
Perspective
Heart World People
Different Perspectives
Perspectives
So Many People
Ultimately
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I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!
Dave Sitek / Musician
Believe
Love Is
Passion
Song
Reach
Spell
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Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Intention
Power Music Believe
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I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Human Psyche
Sun
Twelve
Psyche
Windows
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Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Software
People Feel More
Belonged
Earlier
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I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Equipment
Shocked
Music People Care
Music Care People
Gear
Intentions
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I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Songwriters
Work Music Start
Closely
Figured
Link
Publisher
Tons
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If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Odds
Purple
Rain
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I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
Dave Sitek / Musician
Disappear
Mirrors
Sunset
Views
Worried
Blasting
Mirror
Rear
Ride
Stereo
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If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Albums
Cynicism
Odds
Purple
Rain
Din
Thriller
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Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
Dave Sitek / Musician
Teacher
Love Is
Medicine
Passion
Potency
Presentation
Song
Spell
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Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldnt do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.
Dave Sitek / Musician
New York
Real
Song
Sunset
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Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Combination
Real Life
Sunset
Life Experience Music
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I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Communication
Mysterious
Music People Know
Communication Music People
Immediate
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I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.
Dave Sitek / Musician
Brooklyn
California
Landlord
Taste
Day Looking New
Rent
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