Susan Ann Sulley (Susanne Sulley) Quotes

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

Susan Ann Sulley The Human League

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• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

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

  

  Gary Lucas
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  • Music
  • Listening

• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  

  Beck
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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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  • Power

• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
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• Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Music
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• Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
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  • Music

• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  

  Edith Piaf
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  • Good
  • Music

• I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Communication

• The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Style

• It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
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• I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there's a will, there's a way,' and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.

  

  Aaron Diehl
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• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

  

  Brittany Snow
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  • Movie
  • Road

• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  

  Patti Stanger
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• There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.

  

  Parker Conrad
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• Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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• We did do the whole of the live suite from 'Fly From Here,' and that was very enjoyable to do. In fact, that is actually our longest piece of music, I think, that we'd ever done.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
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• I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I've never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Photography

• There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Music
  • Famous
  • Talent Show