Music Quotes
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There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
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When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
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I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.
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I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.
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There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.
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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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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.
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Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.
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I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.
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I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.
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I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
