Music Quotes
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Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people's hearts.
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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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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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You just wake up and make music.
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I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
