Music Quotes
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There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
Patti Scialfa
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
Ariel Pink
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
Ernie Isley
The Isley Brothers
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For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
Walter de La Mare
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Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
Stephen Morris
New Order
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Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.
Jenova Chen
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
Verite
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I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
Kevin Gates
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Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
James Levine
