Music Quotes
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[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.
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Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.
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For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
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I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."
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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
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I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
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Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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I love all music, but when I am on the mountain, I listen to a lot of Nas, Drake, 2 Pac, etc.
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Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.
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It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.
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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
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I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.
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I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
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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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I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
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We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.
