Music Quotes
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My parents did not have any interest in music.
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
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I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
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I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
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I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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It's such a wonderful thing for me to be able to be in there and make music with people that I love, first of all. It's something that I'm so passionate about.
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Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.
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I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
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I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
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By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
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Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
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New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.
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I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore.
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Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
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I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
