Music Quotes
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I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
Anthony Hopkins
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I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.
Mike Posner
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
John Philip Sousa
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Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
Jon Batiste
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Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
Daniel Levitin
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The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
Sun Ra
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I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
David Thibodeau
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I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
Bobby Sherman
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
Ernie Isley
The Isley Brothers
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks
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The music I make, I'm different.
Future
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Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
Penny Junor
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In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it's the most natural way to set a tone. So if I want to do a show about depression, I use the opera. If I want to do a show about greed, I use spoken word. If I want to do a show about the injustice that's taking place in the world, I might play Sam Cooke.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
Jeffrey Ross Hyman
Ramones
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
Zooey Deschanel
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Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.
Bertice Berry
