Wayne Shorter Quotes
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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.
Vaughn Monroe
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
Kate McKinnon
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
Imogen Heap
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
Katey Sagal
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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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.
Pardis Sabeti
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
K. Flay
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
Gary Sinise
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice
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I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
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I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.
Joe Walsh
The Eagles
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As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
James Murphy
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
Wayne Shorter
