Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
Quotes to Explore
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
Ikue Mori -
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
Raekwon -
I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
Nate Ruess Fun.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
Tao Lin -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
P. J. Soles -
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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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
LaToya Jackson -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
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 -
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
Naveen Jain -
Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
Lana Del Rey
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I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.
Alvin Lee -
It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.
Patty Duke -
You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
Edie Brickell -
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Matthew Tobin Anderson -
One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam