Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
Melvin Van Peebles
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
Madi Diaz
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In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Damian Marley
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
Kailash Kher
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Bruce Springsteen
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There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.
Daniel Hope
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If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
Eric Close
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The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.
Charlie Haden
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The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.
Dave Gahan
Depeche Mode
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
Billy Bragg
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I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
Dave Sitek
Jane's Addiction
