Music Quotes
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The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
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I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
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I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.
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The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
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We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
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Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
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I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
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I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.
