Music Quotes
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
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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.
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Music is the way I talk to people.
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When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
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I love what I do. I love the music, and I'm honored to be presented with a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
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You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.
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I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.
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As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
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The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.
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I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
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It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
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I feel very fortunate to be in a position to where I can continue to make music and have people appreciate it.
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Composing music is what makes me happy.
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I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
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I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
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When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.
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I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get anxious even when people come up to me for pictures sometimes. That's the one thing that makes me hesitant about my future. But I love music too much to not do it.
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I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.
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You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.
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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
