Benjamin Britten Quotes
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
Zoey Deutch -
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Mandy Patinkin -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
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 -
Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
Sam Bradford
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
Caitlin Rose -
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
Wayne Coyne -
Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
Imogen Heap -
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
Sade Adu -
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White -
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
Zoe Saldana
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
Nas -
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky -
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
Jack White The White Stripes -
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
Hanns Eisler -
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman
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Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Bill Bryson -
I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
Bryan Batt -
We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.
Eric Schmidt -
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
Benjamin Britten