Jeff Lynne Quotes
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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What I'm most proud of about 'Girl Meets World' is that it's going to appeal to all different demographics.
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Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah
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In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
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Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
