Music Quotes
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.
Khalid
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She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.
Emma Bull
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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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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
Brian Ferneyhough
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
Adam Schlesinger
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
Yannis Philippakis
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I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
Amelia Warner
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After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
Andra Day
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I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
Ariel Pink
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
Neil Diamond
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
Johnny Flynn
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Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.
Dierks Bentley
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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
Brantley Gilbert
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I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.
Irmin Schmidt Can
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Billy Sherwood Yes
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We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
Jimmy Iovine
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I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.
Jeremih Felton
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I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.
Maya Beiser
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I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
Arthur Godfrey
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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
Jay Griffiths