Music Quotes
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
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Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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I love to play music.
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People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
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I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
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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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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
