Music Quotes
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There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.
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Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
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I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
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I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
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I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
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It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
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Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
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In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.
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Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
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I wouldn’t change a thing except maybe more air play as I feel my music is sacred and the world needs it now.
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I don’t think there’s any right or wrong with music but I do believe that the more varied styles you listen to and absorb, the more you can apply these styles to your own music and ultimately have a more interesting and varied style of your own.
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Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.
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Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.
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I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
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Music is a healing tool.
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I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone - my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music - ensemble music, not soloism - we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
