Jacques Barzun Quotes
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.Jacques Barzun
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger -
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy -
A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Felicity Jones -
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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Becky G -
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
Gary Clark Jr. -
The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson -
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
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
Tao Lin -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
Tanya Tucker -
I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
Vanity -
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Barry White -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
M.I.A. -
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
Miranda Lambert -
My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.
Amy Purdy -
Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.
Ann Maxwell -
I hate these fucking stretch bastards junk pimp mobiles!
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun