Music Quotes
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
Don McLean
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Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
Paul Stanley Kiss
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
Chris Milk
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Music is a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
Samuel Pepys
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
Jennifer Egan
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
Dan Rosensweig
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I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I ministered, and country music stole me away. It was just where my heart wound up. It's what I wanted to do.
Tracy Lawrence
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
Doug Aitken
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I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
Natalie Maines
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
Jessica Anne Newham
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I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Anthony Hopkins
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
Natalie Maines
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The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
Burt Bacharach
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My favourite outfit is a giant bunny suit. I wore it in a music video for 'Are You One?' by the Chanteuse & the Crippled Claw and got to keep it.
Maxine Peake
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I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.
Anne-Marie
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Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
Doc Watson
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I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.
Lodewijk Fluttert
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein
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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.
William Shakespeare