David Dobkin Quotes

Music is my release.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that's why I did it. If I hadn't, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

I found music because I felt different.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'

Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

When I sing, I feel calm.

No matter how the day's going, when I get out there on that stage, it makes it all all right.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

I was always a shy child and slightly hard of hearing, so music was my outlet.