Music Quotes
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
Archie Shepp
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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
Linda Ronstadt
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My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Bajofondo
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I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.
Carmen Ejogo
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Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
Mary Kay Andrews
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I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
Penelope Cruz
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
Alicia Keys
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
Pythagoras
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With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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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.
Jennifer Lopez
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Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.
Zachary Wayne Farro
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Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy
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I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
Jen Lancaster
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Martin Scorsese
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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.
Zach Condon
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I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.
Charlemagne Palestine
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A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.
Amy Macdonald
