Music Quotes
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People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.
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One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
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On 'Krit Wuz Here,' I had a record called 'Return Of 4eva' on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual 'Return Of 4eva' project, and 'Return Of 4eva' had a song called '4eva And A Day.' So it's like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
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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.
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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.
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I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.
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Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
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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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The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
