George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
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Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
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The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.
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I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.
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I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
