Music Quotes
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Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.
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I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and The Beatles, so I was drawn to the soul.
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You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
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When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.
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The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
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I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.
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Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
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We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.
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I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
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I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
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I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.
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Both groups played progressive rock and even though the majority of the music was based on my compositions, the end result was really a group effort, especially in the arrangements. Both groups MAINHORSE and REFUGEE had a different identity, however MAINHORSE had a lead guitarist which made a big difference in the overall sound. We also had much more vocal arrangements in MAINHORSE. But the essence of the music was mine, in both groups.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
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Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
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Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
