Music Quotes
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
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I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.
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I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
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This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
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I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
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From Ennio Morricone I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
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I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
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Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.
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I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music.
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When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.
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Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.
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For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
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In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
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The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.
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I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
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It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.
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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
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It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.
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If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.
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To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.
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Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.
