Music Quotes
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I firmly ascribe to the concept that music is 100 percent subjective. If you’re hearing music and it sounds good and beautiful to you, then that makes it beautiful. It’s all within the listener. It’s not important for other people to tell you how they react.
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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
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It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.
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The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
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Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
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Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
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The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
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For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
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From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
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I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.
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Music is to reflect the artist and their artistry. I’ve been pretty true to that. I do appreciate my fans and I love them for being supportive from the beginning.
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Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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There’s a yin and yang in music… a soul in it… the push and pull… it’s like a slingshot.
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To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.
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I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.
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I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.
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I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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Much of my inspiration definitely comes from the human experience. I'm really inspired by love like a lot of people are. My art, my childhood, and changes and transitions in life and how they impact me and cause me to write music.
