Music Quotes
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
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Well, my friends, the time has comeTo raise the roof and have some fun.Throw away the work to be done.Let the music play on.
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Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.
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Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit 'MIA.' That's the best part of it.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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We have encouraged all entries to incorporate music. We have 52 entries -- everything from bands to homemade floats, professional floats and walkers.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.
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That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.
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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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I'm always working on new music.
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Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
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I like hearing the sort of harmonies people get into in different parts of the world. I love music that has a sense of allure to it, and exotic tunes. That's what I'm drawn to.
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The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
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I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.
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I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
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There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
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My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I feel like I've done everything in life that I've wanted. I just want to make people feel good and change people's lives with music, and that's it.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
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I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.
