Music Quotes
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Classical music can rock you!
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I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
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I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
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And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
