Music Quotes
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I'm desperate to start a career in music.
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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
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When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.
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Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.
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For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.
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I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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I can't actually play any instrument properly. I can't read music. And here's the New York Times calling me the new George Gershwin. It was so ridiculous, really embarrassing. It was embarrassing to watch these people fall into the trap of their own critical conceits.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
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Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth - an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
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The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to?
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I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.
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I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
