Duncan Sheik Quotes

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Duncan Sheik

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 18, 1969

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

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Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

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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.

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

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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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I make the kind of music I like.

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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.

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I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.

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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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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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The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

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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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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

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

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

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I actually am always a music first person.

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I privilege the music over the lyrics.

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