Steve Reich Quotes
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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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 what our feelings sound like.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
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Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
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The more far-out artists, the better.
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You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.
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I always make my dreams into goals.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
