Music Quotes
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Kris Allen
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I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.
Jenny Lewis
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
B. B. King
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All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.
Afrika Bambaataa
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The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
Alex Lifeson
Rush
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I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.
Adrian Younge
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Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
Penny Junor
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Because you've been exposed to Western tonal music, you know after a certain chord sequence what the next possibilities are. Your brain has compiled a statistical map of which ones are most likely and least likely. If the song keeps hitting the most likely notes, you'll get bored, and if it's always the least likely ones, you'll get irritated.
Daniel Levitin
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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.
Jamila Woods
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Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
Neil Diamond
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Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.
Chris Squire
Cinema
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I'm just really excited to get music out there that's not from the show, because it's cool to be able to break out and have my own stuff under my own name.
Brynn Cartelli
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
Kerris Dorsey
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
The Weeknd
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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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I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
Dweezil Zappa
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.
Alexandra Bracken
