Music Quotes
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If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
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My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.
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I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.
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I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
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I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
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As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
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I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.
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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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Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
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Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.
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I've been to many gay and straight clubs and I have fun in every one of them. It's always great to hear my music played and to be there with everyone.
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Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.
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I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
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I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
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Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
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I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
