Joe Goddard famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.
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It's a part of hip-hop, rave culture. But moving on from whistles, in the future we want to release Greco-Roman wine. Our friends are getting too old to go clubbing, but they will still have to buy our wine if we release it.
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The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.
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Right now, I don't particularly take different CDs or vinyl - I have my CD wallet that I take everywhere I go; there are different things in there that cater to different kinds of times - but if there's a special DJ thing coming up, I might go through my records and pick out this special selection. It's one the things that means you're improving as a DJ the more you do it, understanding what's going to go down well in a specific place.
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People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.
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I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.
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There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.
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It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.
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I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.
-- Joe Goddard
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
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