Music Quotes
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
Bette Midler
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I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
James Vincent McMorrow
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
Jan Hammer
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
Van Morrison
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I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
Paul Weller Incognito
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
Lucy Dacus
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
Ben Kingsley
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My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you any truths. Even to native Norwegian speakers, my lyrics are veiled. I'm asking questions.
Einar Selvik
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John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.
Kevin Macdonald
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I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.
Jason Boyd
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I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.
Alex Winston
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I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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I love 70's music.
Laura Linney
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I started playing music when I was 12 years old.
Chris Jericho
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My perfect day would start with a kiss from my daughter. I would drive her to school listening to our favourite punk rock music on loud in the car.
Bianca Balti
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Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
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Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
Park Chan-wook
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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
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I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
Dennis Brown
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I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.
Brian Wilson
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Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
Emma Bunton Spice Girls