Music Quotes
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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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Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
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I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
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Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
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I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
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The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
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My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.
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I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
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I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.
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I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
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My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
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My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
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Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
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From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
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I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
