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.
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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.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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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.
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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'.
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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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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.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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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.
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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.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go.
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The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
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I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
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This book has done well to preserve this saga of how the state was made safe for cows. How the state is to be made safe from cows is a saga yet to be written.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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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.
