Music Quotes
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I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
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I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
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I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
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Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.
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Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.
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The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
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Everyone knows how physically demanding 'Newsies' is in terms of the dance, but even the guys in the toughest tracks remark that the singing in this show is often the hardest part. The newsboys are teenagers, and Alan Menken wrote this music in the top of a guy's range.
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
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I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
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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 make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
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So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
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In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
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The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.
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In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.
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I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.
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The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)
