Mark Ronson Quotes - Page 2

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• Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

  Mark Ronson

  Records, Wonder, My Favorite

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• DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.

  Mark Ronson

  Art, Cutting, Years

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• Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

  Mark Ronson

  Nike, Hunting, Blue

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• I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

  Mark Ronson

  Sneakers, Serious, Moved On

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• I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

  Mark Ronson

  Attention, Information, Matter

  "Mark Ronson 'so f***ing angry' and 'did not say Amy Winehouse was freaked out by Adele's success'" by Rachael Wheeler, www.mirror.co.uk. May 17, 2012.

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• Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

  Mark Ronson

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

  Mark Ronson

  Wise, Song, Thinking

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• I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew, like Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but I heard "Who Got the Props" by Black Moon, and I went up to this kid in my school with the Walkman on and was like, "What is this? You must tell me how I can get this now." Because there was no Shazam or googling lyrics.

  Mark Ronson

  New York, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

  Mark Ronson

  Thinking, Jam, Records

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". weaa.org. April 16, 2015.

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• I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Thinking, Tunes

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• And then, also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?

  Mark Ronson

  Sound, Needs, Radio

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's kind of great for me 'cause that's all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting.

  Mark Ronson

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Careers, Numbers

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

  Mark Ronson

  Hot, Taste, Sides

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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