Music Quotes
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We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.
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I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.
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I think of music videos as commercials for songs.
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I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
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Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.
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At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.
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I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
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Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.
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I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
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The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
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The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
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For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
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I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
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I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
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When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
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I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
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I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.
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Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.
