Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes
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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.
Nancy Allen -
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
Bahman Ghobadi -
If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
Banks -
I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
Imelda May -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
Kaskade
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
Malik Bendjelloul -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown -
I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.
Karen Salmansohn -
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
Idina Menzel -
It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
Q-Tip
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
Anton Zaslavski -
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
Sam Smith -
Music will save the world.
Pablo Casals -
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.
Andrae Crouch -
She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?
Joanne Rowling -
I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!
Mahesh Bhupathi -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
The world changes when there's music in it.
Michael Tilson Thomas