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

— Duncan Sheik

#explicit #i #implicit #less #make

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

#down #experiences #fax #few #find

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

#being #creative #creative energy #creative people #creativity

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

#big #big ideas #certain #certain way #culture

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

#ago #chanting #creativity #general #had

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. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#between #choruses #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

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. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#away #clear #environment #experiences #first

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#ambition #avenue #build #car #cars

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#good #good parent #had #home #home life

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#driving #fun #had #i #lot