Music Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.
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I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
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The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
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A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.
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I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
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I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.
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I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
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Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
