Music Quotes
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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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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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.
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Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
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I don't think I'd want to concentrate on just acting because I love music, and things are going really well, so I think I will always continue to make music.
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I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.
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I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.
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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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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.
