Music Quotes
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
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Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
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There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
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I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.
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I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.
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I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
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American music culture is black culture.
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When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.
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I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.
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It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
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I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
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There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.
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I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
