Music Quotes
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I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
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For me, every music video is a hurdle. Every time I do a music video, I'm constantly fighting to get my point across. As a gay woman, that's also a big hurdle.
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I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.
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I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
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These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
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No bodyguards, no fuckin' Lear jets, no fuckin' tour bus, no 50 people following you around every day. We all had to go away from each other and the music industry for a while.
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If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
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I tried to score a few films with this composer Brian Reitzell here in L.A. We made a bunch of music we really loved, but we got fired from the film for being too weird.
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I've never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I've always liked regular girls, regular people, because I've always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.
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Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
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I privilege the music over the lyrics.
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Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
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Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
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I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.
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Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.
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I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
