Music Quotes
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I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.
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I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.
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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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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.
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I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.
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I don’t know why jazz critics don’t like contemporary jazz. I think a lot of them feel that straightahead jazz has to be championed by them. And I think there’s resentment involved that the kind of music I’m playing will sell more, and has more radio play.
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I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
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I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.
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It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.
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I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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I play the piano and write music.
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The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.
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Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
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Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.
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Music can be a source of escapism.
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I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
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I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.
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From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
