Music Quotes
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Gospel music has gotten many people through many situations. And I pray my latest album “Bless Somebody Else” has a message that will help you through this pandemic.
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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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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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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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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
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I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
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I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.
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I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
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I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
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It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.
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Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
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Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.
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I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!
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The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.
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Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
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I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
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Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.
