Music Quotes
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I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.
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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
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As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
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For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.
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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
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Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.
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I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.
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The great love of my life is music.
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The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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Our vision is to allow users to search for content like movies, music, and songs with your voice or using gestures on the Kinect and sync that with your TV screen, phone, PC, or any other device.
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I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
