Music Quotes
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
K. Flay
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As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.
Wang Shi
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The power of music and what it does when its super, super important with something like that the day after a life changing event. I really felt lucky and honored to be a part of that homage to see that we were literally injecting medicine into these people with a message like that.
Jason Scheff Chicago
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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
Martin Luther
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The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has everything, and you are there to find the balance when you conduct. You don't have to give too much of your individuality. It's Bach, so it's dangerous to get in the way.
Andris Nelsons
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My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
Deborah Cox
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My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.
Bryce Dessner The National
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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
John Frusciante
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I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Wayne Shorter
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Liszt has never needed revival; his music has always been an important part of the concert repertoire. Nevertheless, he has appeared to need rehabilitation.
Charles Rosen
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I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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Music has always felt very real to me.
Joan Osborne
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God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten times a day - you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it's the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.
Daystar Peterson
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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
LL Cool J
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I didn't really want to give up music.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
Chuck Mangione
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I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.
Wayne Shorter
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Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.'
Dawn Angeliqué Richard
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When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
Chip Esten
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I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
Pink
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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.
Grace Martine Tandon
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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
Jaron Lanier