Music Quotes
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Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.
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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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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 like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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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 iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!
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Through music, I think we can inspire each other.
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I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
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Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
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Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.
