Van Morrison Quotes
It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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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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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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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new 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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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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.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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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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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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Not everybody's gonna get your vision.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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I was 15 when I started making music properly.
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I see a face of love, Fair as sweet music when my heart was strong: Yea - art thou come again to me, great Song?' The face bent over him like silver night In long-remembered summers; that calm light Of days which shine in firmaments of thought, That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
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You can't forget where you came from.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
