Curt Sachs Quotes
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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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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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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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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Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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Time travel is such a magic concept.
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
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Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
