Music Quotes
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'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.
Aubrie Sellers
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
Babyface
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I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
Charli XCX
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It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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Music in this film is a very important part.
Maximilian Schell
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Music is not my business, communication is; and so I have, through my life, tried to communicate through music.
Usha Uthup
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
Ariel Pink
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I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.
Kesha
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It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.
Zella Day
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Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
Amy Purdy
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People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
Pierre Schaeffer
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It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more.
Anita Pallenberg
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For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Dennis Prager
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I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.
Jay-Z
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I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
Ariana Grande
