Music Quotes
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The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, 'Mom, listen to this,' and she'd say, 'Junior, I know who you are.'
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[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
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In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence
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To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
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The only thing I was any good at was music.
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Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.
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I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of the houses and beating down the steps. The Sun was drumming time into the stone. The sun was rhythming the day. (p. 197)
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My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
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I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
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Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
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I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
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I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.
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Today, music is visual.
