Music Quotes
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My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.
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Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person - I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I'm a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts.
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Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.
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As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
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I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.
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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
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Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
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You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!
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As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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Writing music is just like writing a book.
