Music Quotes
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Rock music will never die. We all know that.
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When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
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Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.
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Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
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People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
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I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.
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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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The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.
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I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.
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More precious and important than money, honor, love and friendship ... the music.
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I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
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I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.
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Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
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What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.
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In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
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I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
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I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
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I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you're very happy with and also having it at Number One!
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I love finding talents to pair my music with such as Conrad on 'Firestone', Parson James with 'Stole the Show,' and Will Heard on 'Nothing Left.'
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Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.
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We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
