Music Quotes
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I went to Australia last March, a year ago, and it was pandemonium. I was worried if the people would know my music. You would’ve thought the Beatles came back together, they love country music that much. They knew every word to every song, every hit, and some of the album cuts, I was flabbergasted.
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I and Nicky have got a lot of disagreements, but they are nearly always associated to music. Because we both are very strong-willing persons, we might sit in the opposite corners in the studio argueing about things. One does never know beforehand, whose idea works the best way.
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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
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I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.
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When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
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Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
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For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
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I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
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...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
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Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
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I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.
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I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.
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It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.
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I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
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I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.
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I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.
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The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
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I think that music has an endless life.
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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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When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.
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“I never try to please others when I make music; There is only one person who has to like what comes out of those speakers and that person is myself!”
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Music's another big love of mine.
