Music Quotes
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When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic.
Emil Cioran
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I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
M. Ward
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I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
Kendrick Lamar
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We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.
Erykah Badu
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We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
Ashley McBryde
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Music is entertainment, but I would like to be able to inspire the audience in a way that makes them leave, saying, "Wow, I just left with something I didn't have before going into this concert." I hope that people can leave either a live show or listening to our band record with a sense of peace, where the music was a moment of escape.
Amanda Joy Michalka Aly & AJ
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It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.
Adam Schlesinger
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
Ann Beattie
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Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
Percy Heath
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When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
Laurieann Gibson
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
Al Jarreau
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When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend and things are good in my life, then it's better.
Kygo
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I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.
Cliff Martinez
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The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.
Ken Hill
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Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Clare Bowen
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
Bryn Terfel
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Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
Kip Winger
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I love music so much; I've always played.
Creed Bratton
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I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.
Anat Cohen
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I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
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I've learned that music is such a healer.
James Victor Scott
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I've never seen the devil create music.
Little Richard