Sarah Churchwell Quotes
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.Sarah Churchwell
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Flavor Flav -
When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Dan Hill -
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 -
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison -
To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.
Flume
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
Sam Hunt -
One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
Imelda May -
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
Youssou N'Dour -
Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
Victoria Justice -
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim -
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Jackson Browne
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The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman -
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy -
The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this 'minority?' It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible.
Leo Szilard -
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
Joan Miro
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West -
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy -
Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?
Eddie Izzard -
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.
Jamie Redknapp -
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell