Bryce Dessner Quotes
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
Wayne Swan -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
Washed Out -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
Zoey Deutch -
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Mandy Patinkin -
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills -
Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
Action Bronson -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Xavier Rudd -
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
W. H. Auden -
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
Dan Fogelberg -
I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.
Alice Merton -
I definitely try to keep some level of style on my days off because you never know who's going to snap your picture.
Jesse Lee Soffer -
Con las palabras que no he dicho he desarmado mis armas.
Antonio Porchia -
Musicians are hungry for new music.
Bryce Dessner The National