Music Quotes
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Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.
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John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.
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Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
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Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
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Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
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What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
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Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.
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My music's gonna evolve as I get older.
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I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
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I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'
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I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I play. Even when I was playing coffee shops; it's how its always been.
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I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
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Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.
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I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.
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There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
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The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
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I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.
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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.
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If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
