Music Quotes
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I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
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I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
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I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
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I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
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Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
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It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
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Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.
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I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
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I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.
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I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.
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Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
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I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
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I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
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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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Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
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To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
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Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
