Jimmy Durante Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
Ina Garten -
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
Bat for Lashes -
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus -
You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
T-Pain
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
Barbara Lynn -
I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
Maluma -
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube -
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty -
I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice -
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
Gary Sinise -
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
Zac Hanson Hanson -
As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
Lamar Alexander
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Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.
Bryce Dessner The National -
We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
Christiane Amanpour -
First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.
John Frankenheimer -
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
Sean O'Casey -
I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante