Music Quotes
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Instrumental music can spread the international language.
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And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
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I would love to be able to say that due to my experience in the music industry, when it comes to the songs, I'm killing it over anybody else, but that is not the case. Everybody in this thing is ridiculously talented to where I don't feel special.
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Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.
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Music is what I do naturally.
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For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.
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I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.
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Music is an important part of my writing process.
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That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
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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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It's certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone would say, 'You not a real rapper.' But the main thing is, if you can make good songs, who cares? So I don't know why guys be tripping on Drake. He makes great music. He's dope.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word genius to.
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music.
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Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.
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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
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Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.
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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
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That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.
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Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.
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Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.
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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
