Music Quotes
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I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
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Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.
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I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
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In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.
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I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.
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Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.
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Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
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That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
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Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.
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I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
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Canada can be tough for urban music.
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I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
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Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
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As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
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Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.
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There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.
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All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, your cultural trappings all make you who you are, and who you are makes your music.
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.
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From Ennio Morricone I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
