Music Quotes
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My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
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'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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Music is really driving my whole life.
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A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.
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Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
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The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?
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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 think I resisted it for a long time, just because I thought music can subliminally get through to people who may overtly disagree with you. It’s like a stealth way to influence people’s attitudes. I think as things have become more of an emergency, I’ve realized that that was a luxury that I don’t feel like we can afford anymore. I think we need to be just straight-out blunt about what’s happening.
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The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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.
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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
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Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.
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I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.
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There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
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I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.
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Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
