Harry S Truman Quotes
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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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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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.
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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.
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Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
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The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.
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I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
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We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
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I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
