Music Quotes
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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
Mata Hari
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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.
Anne Reid
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That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.
David Gray
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Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.
Eliot Spitzer
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Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
Paul Gauguin
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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.
Kina Grannis
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My music is like my freedom space.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Conrad Hall
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It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
Jens Lekman
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There is a Beautiful Magic to This Whole Music Business.
Isaac Slade The Fray
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I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.
Lukas Haas
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It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.
Adam Schlesinger
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I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
Chuck Mangione
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What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.
Erykah Badu
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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb
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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
John Hodgman
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Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.
George Chapman
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Music is a healing tool.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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That's a blessing in disguise because they left a big void in their genre of music and that's opened a little hole for us to fit in there
Sully Erna Godsmack
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The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
Lou Doillon
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
Ian MacKaye