Music Quotes
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You've got to cater to the audience and have some flexibility. I don't want to box myself in. I want to make music that I like, and I like a shitload of music.
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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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But not to have music would be unnatural to me.
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I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
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There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.
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I love the London vibe. I get so much love from London that I never had from other places. It's crazy. The people there understand music so much more.
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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.
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Darker music turns you into a hardcore motherfucker!
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I love doing concert music.
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I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.
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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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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
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Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
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Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.
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Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.
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I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
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Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.
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Producing just one video is a long process. First, you decide your song, then you have to figure out the arrangement of the song; will you play it on the guitar? Will you make it a music video? Once you figure that out, you record it and then edit it, which can take two to five days to finish.
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
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I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
