Music Quotes
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I consume music the way other people consume movies.
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.
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We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all.
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I'm against people downloading music.
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In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
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My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
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I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
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Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
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I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.
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Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
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Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
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There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.
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In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
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I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
