Paul Desmond Quotes
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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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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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
Karen DeCrow
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice
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I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
Eddie Murphy
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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.
A. R. Rahman
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
Fefe Dobson
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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All I do is make music.
The Weeknd
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
Barbara Broccoli
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While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
Lisa Morton
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I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.
Cory Monteith
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond
