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Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there. ↗

— Sachin Kumar Puli

#hardships #knowledge #learning #life #life

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

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

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

— Duncan Sheik

#me #never #pretty #regularly #shortage

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#going #i #moved #really #record

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