Music Quotes
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My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Compay Segundo
Buena Vista Social Club
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I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
Nicki Minaj
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If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.
Link Wray
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I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.
Astro
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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.
John Tavener
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
Jeff Tweedy
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It used to be felt that you had to know someone in the music business to get into it. It was not for mere mortals like us. This enthused people and enfranchised them to become part of culture.
Peter Campbell McNeish
Buzzcocks
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Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.
Brian Elwin Haner Jr.
Avenged Sevenfold
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
Rachel Platten
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
Kacey Musgraves
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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
Christopher Lee
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I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!
Mike Posner
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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
Chuck D
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The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.
Daniel Libeskind
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When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
Andre Benjamin
