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Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

Nick Valensi The Strokes

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• I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Love
  • Unique

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Free
  • Never

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• 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
  • World
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• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
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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.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
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• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Music
  • Nothing
  • Someone

• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Seeing

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Music
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• My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Being on stage is what I enjoy.

  

  Debbie Gibson

• What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

  

  Nick Valensi The Strokes
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