Damien Rice Quotes

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Damien Rice

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 7, 1973

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

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Everyone is capable of everything.

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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

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