Music Quotes
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I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
John Frusciante
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
Zooey Deschanel
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Iris DeMent
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
Audrey Hepburn
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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
John Hodgman
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If all you have is music, then you don't have music
Wayne Shorter
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We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.
Steve Reich
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In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
Keith Jarrett
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Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
Chely Wright
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I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people.
Micheal Ray Stevenson
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
B. B. King
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
Matthew McConaughey
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Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
Freddie Hubbard
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
Odetta Holmes
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My music has always been my solo project.
Ariel Pink
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
Garth Brooks
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I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
Jamelia
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I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson