Music Quotes
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.
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It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
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Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
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Music can't change the world.
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Good music will always be recognized in the end.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
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I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.
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There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
