Music Quotes
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I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
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Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
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I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.
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A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.
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Selling music doesn't make that much money.
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My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
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I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.
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I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.
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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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Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.
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In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.
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If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
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There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
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It's good to listen to electronic music when you're stressed out because you will feel a release afterwards.
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My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
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I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
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'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
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I believe in working on the music right up until it's ready. And then I'll worry about how to let people know it's there.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
