Music Quotes
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I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.
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Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
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I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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Music is a healing tool.
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Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
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Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.
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That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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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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My pregame music includes a nice little mixture. Probably a little Counting Crows, maybe some Avicii. Taylor Swift.
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My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
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I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.
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Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
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The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.
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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
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There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.
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I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.
