Music Quotes
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What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
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I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
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The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.
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'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.
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I am here talking to 'Rolling Stone' because of an iPhone. Music has transformed because of Apple.
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When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
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Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier.
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But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
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I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.
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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 truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
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I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.
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I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.
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I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.
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I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.
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I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
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He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.
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'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
