Music Quotes
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok
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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.
Frank Black
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
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I don't like talking about music.
Martha Wainwright
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I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.
Lindsey Buckingham
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I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.
Arthur Rubinstein
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I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.
Gary Numan
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
SZA
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I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
Susanna Hoffs
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd
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I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!
Martina McBride
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The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
Chico Hamilton
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The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
Jimmy Rushing
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Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Martin Parr
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I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
Sean Paul
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Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
Bret Michael Sychak
Poison
