Music Quotes
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With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
Walt Whitman
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There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
Ernie Isley
The Isley Brothers
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Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
Billy Higgins
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For me the visual is just as important as the music.
Christina Aguilera
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We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
Krist Novoselic
Nirvana
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A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.
Dion
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I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.
Christina Aguilera
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In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
Bryce Dessner
The National
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
D. T. Suzuki
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
Kurt Elling
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Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
Debby Ryan
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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.
Dierks Bentley
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Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
Afrika Bambaataa
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I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
Alexandra Patsavas
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There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
Leo Ornstein
