Music Quotes
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
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My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.
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Wagner is the Puccini of music.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Michael B. Jordan is actually cool. He's like the homie. I'm actually talking to him. He reached out to me a while ago and just showing love for the music after 'TRaPSOUL' dropped.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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When all these huge offers start coming in, people see dollar signs. People see fame. I just knew that it was a lie. Unless you really hit it off in radio right away - a lot of my friends didn't, and they were getting put in so many horrible positions where they were getting stuck. They weren't even allowed to release music.
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Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
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I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.
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Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.
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Sometimes you'll write while listening to a piece of music and think it's great, but then you'll go back and read it without the music and go, 'This sucks.'
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
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My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
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We’re living in the age of discovery. I think it is almost more exciting to release music with newer artists.
