Music Quotes
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Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
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The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
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After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'
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I fell in love with playing the trumpet because of what we call 'hot jazz' of the 1920s and 1930s, music that has a higher energy to it.
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So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
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I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
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I like music, indie stuff, but I don’t like liking music that other people like.
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It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it
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Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
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Nothing can ever be wrong about music.
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A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
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Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched 'American Idol,' but I think it was nice to be able to show kids, 'Hey, you can be here, too.'
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I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.
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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
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For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.'
