Music Quotes
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As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.
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England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.
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No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.
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People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
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I wish I had time to listen to music more.
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We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.
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Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
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As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
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Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.
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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
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There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
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I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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All of my music is honest.
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
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I love to swim and listen to good music.
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... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her
