Music Quotes
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
Nas -
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne -
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel -
I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
R. Kelly -
I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.
Andra Day -
Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
Jerry Jeff Walker
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Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel -
Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy -
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour
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Music will save the world.
Pablo Casals -
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther -
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward -
Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
Chris Lane -
Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal.
Selena Gomez -
The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.
Uta Hagen
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I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.
Leon Russell -
It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.
Chris Lane -
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
Napoleon Bonaparte