Music Quotes
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The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It's a lot of pressure.
Bibi Bourelly
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
James Young
Styx
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Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
Alison Goldfrapp
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
Kate Bush
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Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.
Kygo
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Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
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There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.
Bill Callahan
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You've got to look at yourself as what I call a lifer. You're going to be out there playing music your whole life, in a live situation. That's what sends me out into the world, and as I see this beautiful world, I want to do more and contribute more, and stay in a position to do more and contribute more.
Perry Farrell
Jane's Addiction
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Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...
Randall Jarrell
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
George Gershwin
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I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
Eddie Trunk
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If you add real, live instruments, then it takes you into different realms of sorts and it doesn't sound so electronic all the way through.
Paul Hardcastle
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I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.
Mac Miller
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I'm not going to say that I'm some musical genius, but I've always loved music.
Alyson Stoner
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Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
Andrea Bocelli
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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.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Music became my refuge and then my salvation.
Lena Horne
