Music Quotes
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I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should...' I just kept going.
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I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.
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I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.
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That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
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I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.
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Painting, literature, music, are more closely allied than the public usually admit. They are merely different means of expression.
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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.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
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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.
