Music Quotes
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I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel.
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I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].
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I don't want to stop bringing out music.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.
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A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.
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If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
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I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.
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I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
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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.
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In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.
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When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat 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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I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'
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Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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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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I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in love with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa nova, the language and the people.
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All great music does that. It doesn't sound like it came from a particular time. It's not dated. It's classic in the sense of its style.
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.
