Music Quotes
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To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
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The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
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We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
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Everything goes in cycles in the music industry.
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Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
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You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.
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Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
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I can't help but love all music, but nu disco is my new favorite.
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The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.
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Music is like film to me.
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Music does not excite until it is performed.
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Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.
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I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.
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'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
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I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.
