Music Quotes
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I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.
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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
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I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.
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The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.
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My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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I would hope that everyone likes my music.
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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.
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I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.
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I don't like talking about music.
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My mami and papi love my music. They're always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it's over.
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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
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'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
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If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.
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Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.
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In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
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Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.
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Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
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I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
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I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
