Music Quotes
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It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
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I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.
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The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, 'Mom, listen to this,' and she'd say, 'Junior, I know who you are.'
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Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
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He was all over where there was music.
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[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
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Music moves us because it serves as a metaphor for emotional life. It has peaks and valleys of tension and release. It mimics the dynamics of our emotional life.
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
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Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
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There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
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The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
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I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
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But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
