Music Quotes
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.
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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.
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Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.
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Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
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I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.
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It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
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I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music.
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I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.
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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
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One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.
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Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
