Music Quotes
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I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
Coco Lee
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
M.I.A.
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As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
Lesley Garrett
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
Franz Kafka
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And then music. Wind chimes. And the sound of someone playing a violin. A fiddle. Or maybe just the music of a little dragon's wings. Maybe.
Christopher Golden
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What has started to interest me is how you use all the different disciplines and tools we have at our disposal, and that includes going into different art forms, like music and movement, because often they can tap into things that characters can't necessarily express through words. Audiences really enjoy that total experience.
John Tiffany
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With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
Bear McCreary
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Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh
Grateful Dead
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Don't make it about your gender or about your looks, make it solely about the music.
Nora En Pure
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Maria Callas
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I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
Alan Jackson
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I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
Claron McFadden
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I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
John Cameron Mitchell
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I'm fascinated with aggressive music on a street level. We draw from all corners of rock 'n' roll history , hip hop, dance, punk, whatever, and spit it out as the Prodigy sound. The live element allows us to take it one step further, to really connect with the crowd and bring out a darker side to the band. It will always remain important to me to create something raw and unpolished.
Liam Howlett
The Prodigy
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For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.
Ashley Roberts
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I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
Luke Bryan
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When a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable-we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
Daniel Levitin
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My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
Debi Mazar
