Music Quotes
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
Archie Shepp
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Yes, TV is the dominant medium in Pakistan, but it was a conscious decision to have an Indian film as my first release. Being launched in an Indian film with a great script, character, and music is half the battle won. The rest is destiny.
Mawra Hocane
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Alex Van Halen
Van Halen
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The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear.
Pythagoras
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A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.
Charles Hazlewood
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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
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The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
Martin Luther
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I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.'
Ani DiFranco
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
Wayne Shorter
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Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.
Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Graham
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You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina Aguilera
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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.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.
Claudia Christian
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My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
Anton Corbijn
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I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.
R. J. Anderson
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When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
Jenny Lewis
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
