Music Quotes
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First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.
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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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YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.
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I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
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We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?
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My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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I really want my music to go mainstream.
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I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.
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Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
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We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.
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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
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I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
