Music Quotes
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I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.
Jason Moran
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs
The Steve Miller Band
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But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
Paula Cole
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
Ice Cube
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The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
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I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
Martha Wainwright
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My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.
Ella Leya
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I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.
Florence Henderson
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Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
Jonathan Jackson
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I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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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.
Bad Bunny
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It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.
Don McLean
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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
Jordan Peele
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My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
Blake Shelton
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All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.
Steve Reich
