Simon Rattle Quotes
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
LaToya London
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
Olly Murs
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
Lady Gaga
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
Hansika Motwani
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'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
Daniel Barenboim
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And we danced;Out there on that empty hardwood floor.The chairs up and the lights turned way down lowThe music played, we held each other close.And we danced.Like no one else had ever danced before.I can't explain what happened on that floor.But the music played,We held each other close,And we danced.Yeah, we danced.
Brad Paisley
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
Jeff Bridges
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I listen to so much music every day, so that's such a big part of my life. To be able to pursue that and put out my own stuff is definitely a goal. I don't want to put something out that I'm not proud of because I think it's so easy to say, 'I'm an actress/musician.'
Kerris Dorsey
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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
Al Walser
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
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In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
Kathy Mattea
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When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.
Alexander Siddig
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There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.
Deborra-Lee Furness
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
