Tony Iommi Quotes
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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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.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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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.
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Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.
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'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
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Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
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I think music changes and it evolves.
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A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
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I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
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The problem with the world now is that there’s so much technology is that things move so fast. How people acquire music and how they digest it is very different. It’s a different world from even a few years ago.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?
