Music Quotes
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
Ziggy Marley
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
R. Kelly
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We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
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My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
John Hillcoat
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
Kate Bush
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
Kailash Kher
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
John Frusciante
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Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
Jason Boyd
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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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What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?
Marc Benioff
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Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
Bobby McFerrin
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
Manika
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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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I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!'
Chanel Iman
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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
Tyler, The Creator
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I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.
Morten Harket A-ha
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
Carlos Santana Santana
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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.
Ariel Pink
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Women's music is underrepresented.
Beth Anderson
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
Artie Shaw
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
Mahershala Ali
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I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.
Brooklyn Beckham