Music Quotes
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Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
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My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
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I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.
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The music of memory has its own pitch,which not everyone hears.
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Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
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Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
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The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.
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I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.
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Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy.
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I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
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It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.
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I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
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Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.
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Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
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I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
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The music paled like a candle and went out.
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I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.
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'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
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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.
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Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.
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I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.
