Johnny Mathis Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Felicity Jones -
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
Kaskade -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen -
Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
Tahl Raz
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
Vikram Chatwal -
I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
Aaron Carter -
I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
Sam Hunt -
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
Isaac Hayes -
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
Patrick Rothfuss -
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
Ville Valo HIM
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There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'
Nick van de Wall -
As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down -
L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.
John Coltrane -
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling -
My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
Johnny Mathis