Gregg Allman Quotes

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!

Gregg Allman

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• Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Money
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• If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

  

  Banks
  • Music
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• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Great
  • Music
  • Love

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Music
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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

  

  Van Morrison
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  • Arrangements

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
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• That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
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  • Book

• As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.

  

  Jameela Jamil

• It's enormously good fun. I love it. I really do. I have this sort of set face.

  

  Marsha Mason
  • Good
  • Fun

• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  

  Fridtjof Nansen
  • Time

• Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Music
  • Tiger