Music Quotes
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Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands, because everyone can put their stuff online. Even if you can't find a record label, you can find these awesome bands, all over the world.
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One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
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If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.
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After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
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Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
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I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
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I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.
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George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
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I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
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From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
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I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace.
