Bryce Dessner Quotes
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.Bryce Dessner The National
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono -
Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
K. Flay -
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
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 -
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Yanis Varoufakis -
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
Sam Smith -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
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 -
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
Cam
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
Kate Voegele -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman -
I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
Randy Owen -
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons -
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
Olly Murs -
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
Lily Tomlin -
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
Joe Cocker -
Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
Kate Middleton -
I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.
Jon Watts -
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.
Bryce Dessner The National