Paul McCartney Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
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It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
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A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
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Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
