Music Quotes
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I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.
The Weeknd
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Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
Lauren Alaina
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I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
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Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.
Max Casella
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
John Abercrombie
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I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.
Juanes
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It’s been a while coming and the last couple of years have been perilous at times for PI, particularly because of a legal fight that set us back. So besides it being sick music, to return with such a strong set of releases feels like a vindication of our rights as artists too.
A. K. Paul
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I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
Avicii
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz
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I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me.
Edward Enninful
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If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Bryan Adams
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Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. And it's not a namedropping thing, but there's just not that many people in this certain small little genre world we live in that I don't know or am not acquainted with. And I like them all; I get along with pretty much everyone. It wouldn't be unusual to see a thousand collaborations at some point.
Bradford Cox
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
Jamie Wyeth
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The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any major composer from Debussy to Ravel to Mozart to whoever else - you can kind of hum it.
Bryce Dessner
The National
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For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.
Bozoma Saint John
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I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.
Anderson East
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I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
James Brolin
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Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.
Juanes
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In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
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The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
Brenda Lee
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Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
Bruce Feirstein