Music Quotes
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I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.
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With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, with people's emotional states, in a communal way, and listening to that is really - it's both informative and so generous. It's like emotional news.
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Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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Through the music and words we, as the band The ex, express our thoughts and opinions and ideas. It is not always totally necessary for our audience to clearly hear and understand every line I sing. The power and impact, the positive energy of the music are as much part of the whole thing as the words. We are not trying to convert people, but we believe in our music and like to play it in front of other people, hoping that we can get them as excited as we are about our music.
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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
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The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.
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I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
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I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
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I think we make the music that we make. Yes, we are aware of music climate, and we are all avid fans of listening, collecting and discovering music.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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We're quite comfortable playing to anyone. Our music adapts to the situation.
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying to find out who the voices of our time are. I attend a spectrum of concerts that are close to classical - anything from Wynton Marsalis to Renee Fleming.
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There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.
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There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
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You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
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I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.
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Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
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I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.
