Music Quotes
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When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
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I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.
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I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
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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 started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
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Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
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Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.
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Music is everywhere, and it's an amazing and creative way for people to express themselves, so I love it.
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I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
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Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.
