Music Quotes
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For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing.
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I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
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As a tool for the activation of specific thoughts, music is as good as language. The combination of the two-as best exemplified in the love song-is the best courtship of all.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.
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I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
