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" Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone. "
Morgan Neville
Harmony
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" The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. "
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" If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told. "
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" The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. "
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" Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world. "
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" Sometimes we have our perfect foils, or you can call them their bete noir: the person who brings out both the best and the worst in you because you disagree with them so completely. Yet, you understand and respect them enough to give it your all. "
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" Success and singing is not synonymous. "
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" Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others. "
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" I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly. "
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" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "
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" I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures. "
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Never
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" They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore. "
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" Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy. "
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" We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975. "
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" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "
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" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "
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" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "
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" At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible. "
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Everything
Beginning
" Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore. "
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" By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game. "
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" If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values. "
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" A lot of backup singers are really shy and don't want their life documented. They're not pining to be celebrity. They've had a front-row look at celebrity for a long time, and most people find out it's not for them. "
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Long
People
Time
" To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take. "
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" Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore. "
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" When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons. "
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" I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. "
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" Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth. "
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