Music Quotes
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Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.
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I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
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I love to sing and make music because it makes me feel good.
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They say music can alter moods and talk to you. Well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? If it can, then the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge that it was my fault, and I'll get sued!
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In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
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Music videos are not as glamorous as they seem. They are very tiring.
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We just make music. For I never stop working.
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Good music is good music.
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Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.
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I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
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I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
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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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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
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I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
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I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.
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But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
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Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
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There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'
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I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
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Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.
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Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
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It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is in Britain, too, because it has an informality and a fluidity that should really be celebrated.
