Music Quotes
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The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.
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As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.
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The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.
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Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
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I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.
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I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
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Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.
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Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
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People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
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I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
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I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
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For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.
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I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship?
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
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I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.
