Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
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• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
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• We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
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• I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
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• I've sung other people's music all my life.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
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• A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

  

  Chris Owen
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• For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

  

  Dave Heineman
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• I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

  

  Lynn Nottage

• My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.

  

  Emilia Fox
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• Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Music