Music Quotes
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.
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The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I write my music.
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But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.
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People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.
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Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
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Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.
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Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
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I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
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Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.
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I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.
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Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
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I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it's been so underground. I just want people know how good this culture is, how good the music is, and how it can change your life.
