Music Quotes
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Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.
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My first engagement with any art was music.
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Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.
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They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true.
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
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Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.
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I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
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I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
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The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
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In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.
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When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
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Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
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I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
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My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
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Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
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We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.
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I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.
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We saw that the music industry was changing and we felt that it needed to change. We have wanted to do this for a very long time.
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Music is interior decoration.
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Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.
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I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
