Claude Debussy Quotes
Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Quotes to Explore
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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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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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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You get to tell your story through your music if you choose to.
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We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
