Music Quotes
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When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
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I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.
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I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
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Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.
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I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.
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I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.
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Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
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Music comes from a place we don't know.
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I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.
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I feel like my music is for everybody. As long as the music is good, I can please everybody.
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Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
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Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.
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We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.
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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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I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.
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To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
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Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.
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We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
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Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
