Music Quotes
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Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
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Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.
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I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
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I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
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I always knew that music was going to happen for me, I just didn’t know exactly how it was going to happen, or how soon. I always manifested this in my head.
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Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.
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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
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I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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Rhythm is the pulse of music.
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My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.
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'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
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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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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.
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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
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Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
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I like that people are still trying to guess what kind of music I'm making.
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Before you go thinking I’m some kind of King Canute – it was my stance against programmed music that made our sound the way it was (even if I do say so myself), keeping it a hybrid of rock and dance: the sound of the future. Instead I decided to bury myself in the recording process, becoming the band’s recording engineer.
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We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
