Frederic Chopin Quotes
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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.
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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.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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Music is to give, share.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.
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I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.
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Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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My career is doing well both in Tollywood as well as Bollywood.
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My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.
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England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.
