Music Quotes
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Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
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The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
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The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.
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By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.
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Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
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Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
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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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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
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That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
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So turn it on, turn it up, and sing a longThis is real; this is your life in a song.Yeah this is country music.
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I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
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'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
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I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
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The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
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All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
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Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.
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I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
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The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
