Music Quotes
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I don't want music to be a museum.
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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
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Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.
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Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
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I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
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But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
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There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
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I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch.
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When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.
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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
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I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
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I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
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The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
