Music Quotes
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
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I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
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Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
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I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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On my block, we grew up like family. Summer times, man, psshh, we in the back in the alley or in the front on the block. Somebody has some music playing, and nine times out of ten, it's soul music. We got whatever we drinking that day, we got some food, we probably even grilling. It's just a good time.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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... And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?
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The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
